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popular name: James Cagney

date_of_death: March 30, 1986

age: 86

cause_of_death: Heart attack

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: James Cagney was one of greatest actors, dancer, entertainer and performer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. On stage and in film, he was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. Cagney is remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), City for Conquest (1940) and White Heat (1949). To avoid being typecast as a gangster in every film, he was able to negotiate dancing opportunities in his films and ended up winning the Academy Award for his role in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Ending three decades on the screen, he retired to his farm in Stanfordville, New York after starring in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961). He emerged from retirement to star in the 1981 screen adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel "Ragtime" (Ragtime (1981)), in which he was reunited with his frequent co-star of the 1930s, Pat O'Brien, and which was his last theatrical film (and O'Brien's as well). Cagney's final performance came in the title role of the made-for-TV movie Terrible Joe Moran (1984), in which he played opposite Art Carney. In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him eighth on its list of greatest male stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Orson Welles described him as "maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera". Today fans of the great actor can visit the grave of James Cagney at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York.

popular name: Jimmy Stewart

date_of_death: July 2, 1997

age: 89

cause_of_death: Heart attack caused by pulmonary embolism.

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (1908–1997) was an iconic American actor known for his distinctive voice, affable screen presence, and versatility across film genres. Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Stewart initially studied architecture at Princeton University before being drawn to acting. He began his film career in the 1930s and quickly became a leading man, starring in classics such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), which earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in The Philadelphia Story (1940). During World War II, Stewart served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces, rising to the rank of brigadier general. After the war, he returned to Hollywood with renewed depth, taking on more complex roles in films like It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Rear Window (1954), and Vertigo (1958). Over his six-decade career, Stewart appeared in over 80 films and became one of the most beloved figures in American cinema. He was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1985 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985. Fans can visit the grave of Jimmy Stewart at Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Glendale in California.

popular name: Busby Berkeley

date_of_death: March 14, 1976

age: 80

cause_of_death: Natural Causes

claim_to_fame: Show Business

best_know_for: Busby Berkeley was an American film director and musical choreographer best known for his elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns and showgirls - lots and lots of showgirls. Flamboyant, energetic, ingenious, Busby Berkeley created and perfected a musical genre of extravagant fantasy—multiple spectaculars bulging with outsized props and battalions of beautiful girls dancing in kaleidoscopic patterns or posed in elaborate geometric formations. Berkeley's popularity with an entertainment-hungry Depression audience was secured when he choreographed five musicals back-to-back for Warner Bros.: 42nd Street, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Dames, and Fashions of 1934, as well as In Caliente and Wonder Bar with Dolores del Río.