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Perhaps the most shocking fact revealed in Cagney is the actor's lifelong secret desire to leave Hollywood and go into agriculture.
Cagney's charisma launched what looks, decades later, like the most enduring film style of all.
So, in 1942, Cagney became one of the first stars to start his own production company.
What Americans do recall about Cagney they're likely to have picked up from imitators (including, of all people, Sammy Davis Jr.), who loved to mimic his nasal, rapid-fire delivery, and to re-enact that moment at the end of his films when he gets plugged with what seems like 300 bullets and reels theatrically for 12 minutes before dropping dead.
Cagney's slow fade is especially surprising when you consider how much the genre he helped to invent, the gangster film, thrives.