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{{quote|''"You dirty rat!"''|[[Beam Me Up, Scotty|Not]] James Cagney}}
'''James Francis Cagney''' was an American film actor most famous for gangster roles in the [[The Great Depression|1930s]] and [[The Forties|40s,]] as well as for his [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|alleged]] [[Catch Phrase]]. He starred in some of the best gangster pictures ever made, including ''[[Angels with Dirty Faces]],'' ''[[White Heat]],'' ''[[The Roaring Twenties (film)|The Roaring Twenties]],'' and ''[[The Public Enemy]],'' which is [[Pop
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* [[Typecasting]]: as the bad guy
* [[Villain Protagonist]]
* [[Yiddish as a Second Language]]: The Irish-American Cagney had [[Irishman and a Jew|learnt Yiddish from his playmates]] while growing up in [[Big Applesauce|New York City]], and spoke it fluently. He even used it in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305073222/http://mahnishmah.com/system/scripts/modules/admin/pages/show_page.cgi?p=13241 this scene] from the opening of the 1932 [[Warner Brothers]] picture ''Taxi'', in which a Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrant is frustrated in his attempt to communicate with a policeman, until Cagney interrupts in fluent Yiddish to offer the man a lift.
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