Get Free Checker

James Cagney

NOUN
  1. United States film actor known for his portrayals of tough characters (1899-1986)

How To Use James Cagney In A Sentence

  • James Cagney was a screen toughie, but the poor guy had to dance and sing for the Academy members to take note of him.
  • But how can that happen to somebody who once co-starred with the likes of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Gene Autry?
  • He preferred to be understood more simply: "They were called movies," he more than once said to me, "and I made them move"—perhaps better and less pretentiously than any of his peers, especially after he signed on at Warner Bros. and entered his glory years with "The Roaring Twenties" 1939, a James Cagney gangster film. We Shall Not See His Like Again
  • But how can that happen to somebody who once co-starred with the likes of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Gene Autry?
View all