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"You don't psych yourself up for these exact things, you decide to do them.... I'm performing for the audience, not for myself, and I really do it as immediately as I can. " (James Cagney) A lot of printer ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important results, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to accelerate on the lives of America's most important women and men in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. When the American Film Institute assembled a list of its top 100 actors of all time at the close of the 20th hundred years, one of the very best 10 was James Cagney, an acting professional whose performing and dancing skills spawned a stage and film career that spanned over five generations and once compelled Orson Welles to call him "maybe the greatest actor to ever appear in forward of your camera." Indeed his portrayal of "The Man Who Has Broadway", George M. Cohan, received him an Academy Prize in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy. As famous director Milos Forman once said, "I think he's some kind of genius. His instinct, it's just unbelievable. I possibly could just stay at home. Among the qualities of a brilliant actor is the fact that things look better on the screen than the set. Jimmy has that quality." In the long run it was portraying difficult men and gangsters in the 1930s that transformed Cagney into an enormous Hollywood star, and they were the varieties of assignments he was practically born to play after growing up rough in Manhattan at the switch of the 20th hundred years.
