LONDON TIMES ON GEN. OTIS.; Declares He Might as Well Cease Playing the Ostrich.
Date: 18 July 1899
James Cagney Birthday, Date of Birth
James Francis Cagney Jr. (; July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer. On stage and in film, he was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. He won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances.
Cagney is remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), City for Conquest (1940) and White Heat (1949), finding himself typecast in the early years of his career. He was able to negotiate dancing opportunities in his films and ended up winning the Academy Award for his role of George M. Cohan in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him eighth on its list of greatest male stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Orson Welles described him as "maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera".
After making his debut in 1919, he spent several years in vaudeville as a dancer and comedian and played his first major acting role in 1925. Al Jolson was sufficiently impressed by his performance in 1929's Penny Arcade that he bought the rights to it, securing Cagney's part in the Warner Bros. adaptation of the play. This marked the beginning of a lengthy, albeit turbulent association with the studio.
Cagney's fifth film, The Public Enemy, became one of the most influential gangster movies of the period. He became one of Hollywood's leading stars and one of Warner Bros.' biggest contracts at the time. In 1938 he received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his subtle portrayal of the tough guy/man-child Rocky Sullivan in Angels with Dirty Faces. He was nominated a third time in 1955 for Love Me or Leave Me with Doris Day. Cagney retired from acting and dancing in 1961. He came out of retirement 20 years later for a part in the movie Ragtime (1981), mainly to aid his recovery from a stroke.
Cagney walked out on Warner Bros. twice over the course of his career, each time returning on much improved personal and artistic terms. In 1935 he sued Warner for breach of contract and signed with Edward L. Alperson's independent company Grand National Pictures. In 1942 he established his own production company, Cagney Productions, before returning to Warner seven years later. In reference to Cagney's refusal to be pushed around, Jack L. Warner called him "the Professional Againster". Cagney also made numerous USO troop tours before and during World War II and served as president of the Screen Actors Guild for two years.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Monday, July 17, 1899
- Place of Birth
- Manhattan
- Age
- 126
- Star Sign
- ♋
The July 17, 1899 was a Monday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 197 day of the year. President of the United States was William McKinley.
If you were born on this day, you are 126 years old. Your last birthday was on the Thursday, July 17, 2025, 88 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, July 17, 2026, in 276 days. You have lived for 46,109 days, or about 1,106,635 hours, or about 66,398,157 minutes, or about 3,983,889,420 seconds.
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17th of July 1899 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on July 17, 1899
METROPOLITAN MEN MAY GO ON STRIKE; General Master Workman Parsons Makes a Distinct Threat. MR. VREELAND STANDS FIRM He Meets the Board of Arbitration and Refuses Concessions. Employes Not to Quit Work Until the Effect of To-night's Mass Meeting Is Seen.
Date: 18 July 1899
GEN. CORBIN'S STATEMENT.; Declares the Complaints of Correspondents Are Without Basis.
Date: 18 July 1899
AMERICAN WORK IN KOREA.; The United States Minister to the Hermit Nation Talks -- Bad Start of a Trolley Road.
Date: 18 July 1899
United States Minister Allen Talks on American Work in that Country
FIERCE BATTLE WITH OUTLAWS; Sheriff Killed and Several of the Posse Wounded by Bandits at Cimarron, New Mexico.
Date: 18 July 1899
MILES ANSWERS CRITICS; Says He Wanted Largest Number of Troops for Philippines. QUOTES OFFICIAL LETTERS Statement Says Gen. Merritt Desired More Regulars, but the Entire Command Asked For Was Smaller.
Date: 18 July 1899
Statement in Answer to Critics Regarding Troops for Philippines; Official Letters
FEELING IN WASHINGTON.; War Department Concerned Upon Receipt of Correspondents' Manifesto -- Army Officer's Opinions.
Date: 18 July 1899
Special to The New York Times
Censorship Denounced in Correspondents' Round Robin