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Aug 22, 2004 · Cathleen (Casey) Thomas died Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at her home in Agoura from complications of cancer. Casey was born July 30, 1940 in Stockton, CA. She was adopted by James and Frances...
Aug 11, 2004 · Cathleen Cagney (Casey) Married name: Cathleen Thomas Born: July 30, 1940 (Stockton, CA) Died: August 11, 2004 (Agoura, CA) Cathleen Cagney was known as Casey while a Freshman at Mar-Ken School in 1955.
Aug 11, 2004 · Genealogy for Cathleen Frances Thomas (Cagney) (1940 - 2004) family tree on Geni, with over 245 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- "Casey"
- July 30, 1940
- Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, USA
- August 11, 2004
Aug 18, 2023 · Cathleen Cagney, affectionately called “Casey,” was another cherished member of the Cagney family. As the adopted daughter of James and Frances Cagney, she brought her unique energy to the family dynamic.
- James Cagney
- Show Biz
- Vaudeville and Stardom
- Farmer Cagney
- Parenthood, Sort of
- Estrangement, and Sad Endings
- Death
- Martha’s Vineyard
James Cagney’s early life explains, in part, how he ended up on Martha’s Vineyard for nearly 20 years. He was born July 17, 1899 on New York’s Lower East Side to poor parents. His father was an Irish bartender, his mother a half-Irish homemaker. His childhood, he wrote, was marked by trouble, illness and his father’s alcoholism. “I was very much a ...
He had no intention of going into acting, but someone suggested he try out for a vaudeville drag show called Every Sailor. He got the part. His mother didn’t approve, though, so when the show ended he went to work in a brokerage house as a runner. But then he tried out for a Broadway musical called Pitter Patter, and got a part as a specialty dance...
He played the vaudeville circuit for the next decade. “Life seemed just a never-ending sequence of damned dingy, badly furnished rooms with a one-burner plate,” he wrote. He finally got his break in 1930 in a play called Penny Arcade. Warner Brothers decided to make it into a movie starring James Cagney. He went to Hollywood with a three-week contr...
“In 1936 I attained one of my best and fondest dreams – I bought a farm,” he wrote. “Martha’s Vineyard then was uncluttered with developers (which is too gracious a designation for those gentlemen; developers actually develop nothing but their own bankrolls). I couldn’t think of anything more satisfactory, more life-fulfilling, than living on a far...
At home in Chilmark, Billie doted on her increasingly famous husband. She made sure he always had a hot meal and enforced his privacy. No one could make noise while he concentrated on studying his lines. Over the next 20 years, he would make 30 films and become one of the leading Hollywood film stars. He would earn nominations for three Academy Awa...
Cagney’s efforts at farming his Chilmark estate didn’t work out too well. He found the soil poor, and he couldn’t get help. So in 1955, when the children reached their teens, he bought a farm in Dutchess County, New York, and called it Verney Farm. There he raised cattle and Morgan horses. His friends on Martha’s Vineyard began to age and die, and ...
James Cagney died at Verney Farm on March 30, 1986. He left his personal belongings to Billie and nothing to his children. He had written the will in 1982, two years before Jim died. Cagney added Article VI to his will:
In 2017, the house that once belonged to James Cagney went on the market with an asking price of $13.5 million. The description of the property noted it had 69 acres, the house where the late actor lived and a “guesthouse.” It left out the sad fact the guesthouse, 200 feet away, had been home for his two small children. Images: James Cagney summer ...
Son of the late-great actor, James Cagney, James Jr. was adopted along with sister Cathleen (nickname "Casey") by the senior Cagney and wife 'Bill' in the early forties.
In 1940 they adopted a son whom they named James Francis Cagney III, and later a daughter, Cathleen "Casey" Cagney. Cagney was a very private man, and while he was willing to give the press opportunities for photographs, he generally spent his personal time out of the public eye.
