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name: "Jeanne Cagney"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 March 1919"
died: "7 January 1984"
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# Jeanne Cagney

Actor. Born 25 March 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 7 January 1984.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 March 1919, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 7 January 1984
- **Also known as:** Jeanne Carolyn Cagney
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Cagney, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3176005, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128573/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/30274

## Biography

Jeanne Cagney was an American actress who appeared in film, stage and television. She is best known for playing Josie Cohan, the sister of the title character, in the 1942 musical *Yankee Doodle Dandy* opposite her brother James Cagney.

Born in New York City, Cagney graduated from Hunter College and studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. She made her film debut in 1939 and went on to appear in titles including *Quicksand* (1950), *Don't Bother to Knock* (1952) and *Man of a Thousand Faces* (1957). She also performed on Broadway in productions such as *The Iceman Cometh* (1946).

Cagney's screen career spanned until the mid-1960s.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Yankee Doodle Dandy* (1942), Fi1m 78, as Josie Cohan — [page](https://film.one/film/yankee-doodle-dandy.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Town Tamer* (1965), as Mary Donley
- *Claude* (1965), as Claude's Mom
- *Man of a Thousand Faces* (1957), as Carrie Chaney
- *Kentucky Rifle* (1956), as Cordie Hay
- *The Tilted Tenderfoot* (1955), as Doris Corbett
- *A Lion Is in the Streets* (1953), as Jennie Brown
- *Mr. & Mrs. North* (1952), series, Actor
- *Don't Bother to Knock* (1952), as Rochelle
- *The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok* (1951), series, Actor
- *Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration* (1951), as Mary Magdalene
- *Quicksand* (1950), as Vera Novak
- *The Time of Your Life* (1948), as Kitty Duval
- *Yankee Doodle Dandy* (1942), as Josie Cohan — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/yankee-doodle-dandy.md)
- *Rhythm on the River* (1940), as Country cousin
- *Golden Gloves* (1940), as Mary Parker
- *Queen of the Mob* (1940), as Ethel Webster (as Jean Cagney)
- *All Women Have Secrets* (1939), as Kay Parker Gregory

## Gallery

- ![Jeanne Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942. Vintage 1942 8x10 photo by Schuyler Crail whose stamp is on the rear of the photo](https://film.one/media/person/1233508/gallery-3c50590b89d6.jpg) Jeanne Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942. Vintage 1942 8x10 photo by Schuyler Crail whose stamp is on the rear of the photo — Schuyler Crail & Warner Bros., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Jeanne_Cagney_in_%27Yankee_Doodle_Dandy%27%2C_1942.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jeanne Cagney](https://film.one/media/person/1233508/gallery-1c104ba59293.jpg) Jeanne Cagney — produced by Warner Bros. and supplied to CINE MUNDIAL magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Jeanne_Cagney_Argentinean_Magazine_AD_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mickey Rooney and Jeanne Cagney in the American film Quicksand (1950) - publicity still](https://film.one/media/person/1233508/gallery-d49e0fa0863d.jpg) Mickey Rooney and Jeanne Cagney in the American film Quicksand (1950) - publicity still — unknown (United Artists), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Mickey_Rooney-Jeanne_Cagney_in_Quicksand.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jeanne Cagney](https://film.one/media/person/1233508/gallery-f83dd0fd669b.jpg) Jeanne Cagney — Image via TMDB

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