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1. Cagney's first movie of the 1950s is the little-known "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye", a gangster noir so violent that it was banned in Ohio. Just four months later, "The West Point Story" was released, which made great use of Cagney's dancing skills. There were two female stars; one had been his leading lady in a vastly different movie in the previous decade. Who was she, and what was the movie?
2. In "A Lion is in the Streets", Cagney plays a Southern peddler who rises in politics to run for governor of an unnamed state. At the end, he is gunned down by the widow of a man wrongly accused of murder. Who played his assassin?
3. James Cagney took a supporting role in "Mister Roberts", the 1955 film adaptation of the Tony-winning 1948 play. He plays a dictatorial Navy captain who demoralizes the crew. He cherishes one possession above all others. What is it?
4. Cagney again stars with a former leading lady in "Love Me or Leave Me", in which he plays Martin Snyder, husband of real-life singer Ruth Etting, played by Doris Day. Snyder is a gangster, but he operates a legal business as a cover. What is it?
5. "These Wilder Years" was controversial in its time. In his only performance with Barbara Stanwyck, Cagney plays a wealthy businessman who comes to Stanwyck to help him find something. What is it?
6. In 1957 Cagney played one of his biographical roles in "Man of a Thousand Faces", in which he portrayed a brilliant but tragic silent film star. Who was this star?
7. In 1959's "Shake Hands with the Devil", James Cagney's character Sean Lenihan works as a professor in a medical college, but he is under cover. What is his real post?
8. In 1960, the film "The Gallant Hours" shows James Cagney portraying a real-life military man. Who was it?
9. James Cagney's last film before a long recess was the comedy "One, Two, Three", about an American business executive trying to sell his product in West Germany in 1961, during the construction of the Berlin Wall. What is his product?
10. After a 20-year absence from the screen, James Cagney's final theatrical film was based on "Ragtime", a historical novel set in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century. He played police commissioner Rhinelander Waldo. He was reunited with a fellow star with whom he had made eight previous movies, the first almost 50 years before. Who was it?
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