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White Cottage, White House
Basics
Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Written by Tony Tracy
Cover Image: Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne in
The Quiet Man
(1952)
Chapter 1: Our House to the White House
James Cagney at Warner Bros.
Ragtime
(1981)
Taxi!
(1932)
Love Me or Leave Me
(1955)
Sound-era Hollywood
The Public Enemy
(1931)
"Hollywood initially understood Cagney not as ethnic but white."
this film enhanced the distinctions in white-appearing ethnicities.
Americans All, Immigrants All:
The Irish in Us
(1935) and
Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942)
Motion Picture Production Code in 1934 compelled warner bros. to reimagine Cagney style and other similar personas
To the White House:
Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942)
Cagney's escape from type casting
The Life of George M Cohan
Performed on Vaudeville
"the film's celebration of Irish American Vaudeville History and identities function to enlarge American whiteness even as it maintains the Othering of blackness
Military service in WWII