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In 1920, Cagney was a member of the chorus for the show Pitter Patter, where he met Frances Willard "Billie" Vernon. They married on September 28, 1922, and the marriage lasted until his death in 1986. Frances Cagney died in 1994. [167] In 1940 they adopted a son whom they named James Francis Cagney III, and later a daughter, Cathleen "Casey ...
Frances Willard Avenue in Chico, California is named in her honor. She was a guest of John and Annie Bidwell, the town founders and fellow leaders in the prohibitionist movement. The avenue is adjacent to the Bidwell Mansion. The Frances E. Willard Temperance Hospital operated under that name from 1929 to 1936 in Chicago.
In 1954, Cagney made a television pilot for a mystery series, Satan's Waiting, but it apparently was not sold. [14] Later, she served as the fashion commentator of Queen for a Day, [15] hosted by Jack Bailey on NBC and ABC from 1956 to 1963. This daytime "game show" is regarded as a forerunner of today's reality shows.
Episodes run for either approximately 50 minutes or 90–100 minutes, the latter of which is the format of all episodes from series 6 onwards. The shorter episodes are based on Christie's short stories featuring Poirot, many published in the 1920s, and are considerably embellished from their original form.
50,000,000 Pearls Fans Can't Be Wrong is the first Pearls collection to feature full-color Sunday strips; publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing has begun to print Sunday strips in color in many of its regular-sized comic collections after strictly limiting them to treasury-sized books for years. When Pigs Fly: September 7, 2010 ISBN 0-7407-9737-9
World's Best Reading is a series of classic books published by Reader's Digest beginning in 1982. The series is distributed as a mail order membership club. In addition some individual volumes are available for sale directly through the Reader's Digest website.
The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies : Featuring the 100 Greatest Gangster Films of All Time. United States: Running Press. ISBN 0762443707. Cagney, James (1976). Cagney by Cagney. United States: Doubleday & Company, Inc. ISBN 0385045875. Christianson, Scott (2001). Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House. United States: NYU Press.
Blonde Crazy is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy-drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Noel Francis, Louis Calhern, Ray Milland, and Guy Kibbee. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film is notable for one of Cagney's lines, a phrase often repeated by celebrity impersonators: "That dirty, double-crossin' rat!"