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James Mallahan Cain
Born July 1, 1892(1892-07-01)
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
Died October 27, 1977 (aged 85)
University Park, Maryland, United States
Occupation Novelist, journalist
Nationality American
Genres Crime

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Early life

Cain was born into an Irish Catholic family in Annapolis, Maryland. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world As a Christian Ecclesiastical term Catholic —from the Greek adjective, meaning "general" or "universal"—is described Annapolis is the capital of the US state of Maryland, as well as the County seat of Anne Arundel County. The son of a prominent teacher and an opera singer, he had inherited his love for music from his mother, but his high hopes of starting a career as a singer himself were thwarted when she told him that his voice was not good enough. In Education, a teacher is one who helps Students or pupils often in a School, as well as in a Family, religious or Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto After graduating from Washington College in 1910, Cain enlisted in the Army and spent the final year of World War I in France writing for an Army magazine. See Washington (disambiguation for institutions with similar names The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Back in the States, he continued working as a journalist and briefly served as the managing editor of The New Yorker, but later turned to screenplays and finally to fiction. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry See also Pre-production Screenwriting A screenplay or script is a written plan authored by a Screenwriter, for a Film or Television Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes.

Career

Cain made use of his love of music and of the opera in particular in at least three of his novels: Serenade (about an American opera singer who loses his voice and who, after spending part of his life south of the border, re-enters the States illegally with a Mexican prostitute in tow); Mildred Pierce (where, as part of the subplot, the only daughter of a successful businesswoman trains as an opera singer); and Two Can Sing, a short semi-comic novel about the unhappy husband of an aspiring opera singer who unexpectedly discovers that he has a better voice than she does (Cain's third wife, Florence McBeth, was a retired opera singer). Opera is an art form in which Singers and Musicians perform a Dramatic work (called an opera which combines a text (called a Libretto A subplot, sometimes referred to as a "B story" or a "C story" and so on is a secondary plot strand that is auxiliary to the main plot

Personal life

In 1944 Cain married film actress Aileen Pringle (second of his three wives), but the marriage was a tempestuous union and dissolved in a bitter divorce two years later. Aileen Pringle ( July 23, 1895 – December 16, 1989) was an American stage and film Actress during the Silent film

Cain continued writing up to his death. However, the many novels he published from the late 1940s onward never rivalled his earlier successes. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949 Events and trends The 1940s was a period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s which also leads the period to be He died an alcoholic, aged 85. Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions

Quotation

"I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. Hardboiled Crime fiction is a literary style pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort. "
(from the Preface to Double Indemnity)

Bibliography

(with the dates of the first book publication)

External links

Double Indemnity is a highly influential 1943 crime novel, written by American Journalist -turned- Novelist James M The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime Novel by James M Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo ( November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976) was an Italian Ossessione (Obsession is a 1943 film based on the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M Anthony Mann ( June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967) was an American actor and film director Serenade, a 1956 Warner Bros release was Tenor Mario Lanza 's fifth film and his first on-screen appearance in four years Mildred Pierce is a Novel (1941 by James M Cain. It was made into a feature film starring Joan Crawford Michael Curtiz ( December 24, 1886 - April 10, 1962) was an Academy Award -winning Hungarian-American Film director Mildred Pierce ( 1945) is a Warner Bros Feature film starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Allan Dwan (April 3 1885 &ndash December 28 1981 was a pioneering Canadian -born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter Slightly Scarlet is a 1956 color Film noir based on James M Cain 's novel Love's Lovely Counterfeit Double Indemnity is a highly influential 1943 crime novel, written by American Journalist -turned- Novelist James M Billy Wilder ( June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian born Jewish - American Journalist Raymond Thornton Chandler ( July 23, 1888 &ndash March 26, 1959) was an American Author of crime stories and novels Double Indemnity ( 1944) is an Academy Award nominated Film noir starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward Matt Cimber (b 1936 as Thomas Vitale Ottaviano) is an Italian-American Film producer, director and writer. Butterfly is a 1982 film directed by Matteo Ottaviano, based on the 1947 novel The Butterfly by James M
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