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humphrey bogart James cagney roaring twenties #1 1939-2016 Framed Print
by David Lee Guss
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humphrey bogart James cagney roaring twenties #1 1939-2016 framed print by David Lee Guss. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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At the end of the film, as Eddie (James Cagney) is lying dead on the stairs of a church after having been shot, his head cradled in the arms of... more
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"At the end of the film, as Eddie (James Cagney) is lying dead on the stairs of a church after having been shot, his head cradled in the arms of Panama Smith (Gladys George), a police officer asks her, "What was his business?". She answers, "He used to be a big shot", the last line in the film. This his been ranked by the American Film Institute (AFI) and others as the #1 last line of a gangster movie."
"This marked the end of James Cagney's cycle of gangster films for Warner Bros. Cagney wanted to diversify his roles and would not play a gangster again until White Heat (1949), ten years later."
Bogie would have to wait a few more years before shedding the gangster roles.
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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