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James M. Cain
Brief evaluation, biography and bibliography of Cain.Category Arts Literature Authors C Cain, James M.James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, as the son of an educator and an operasinger. James M.Cain died on October 27, 1977, in Hyattsville, Maryland.
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Extractions: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback James M(allahan) Cain (1892-1977) American journalist, screenwriter, and novelist - identified with Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and others as a central member of hard-boiled school of crime fiction. However, Cain's own opinion was "I belong to no school, hard-boiled or otherwise". Three of Cain's novels - THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1934), DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1936), and MILDRED PIERCE (1941) - were also made into classics of the American screen. His books continued to appear after World War II, but none gained the success of his earlier work. "I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. 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." (Cain in preface to Double Indemnity James M. Cain was born in Annapolis, as the son of an educator and an opera singer. He studied at Washington College, in Chesterton, Maryland, earning his B.A. at the age of eighteen, and masters in 1917. Cain worked as a clerk, a meat-packer, a singer, and a teacher. During World War I in army service he was the editor of the 79th Division newspaper
RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: James M. Cain
RaraAvis bibliography of James M. Cain.Category Arts Literature Authors C Cain, James M.James M. Cain. Very reliable, aside from perhaps some recent anthologies.Books. Our Government (Knopf, 1930); The Postman Always Rings
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Extractions: Very reliable, aside from perhaps some recent anthologies Past All Dishonor (Knopf, 1946) Sinful Woman (Avon, 1947) The Butterfly (Knopf, 1947) The Moth (Knopf, 1948) Three of Hearts (Robert Hale, 1949) Jealous Woman (Avon, 1950) The Root of His Evil a.k.a. "The Modern Cinderella" (Avon, 1951) Galatea (Knopf, 1953) Mignon (Dial, 1962) The Magician's Wife (Dial, 1965) Cain x 3 (Knopf, 1969) Rainbow's End (Mason-Charter, 1975) The Institute (Mason-Charter, 1976) Hard Cain (G.K. Hall, 1980) The Baby in the Icebox and Other Stories (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981) "The Robbery" "Vanishing Act" "Dreamland" "Joy Ride" "Queen of Love and Beauty" "Santa Claus, M.D."
James M. Cain
James M. Cain. James M. Cain was born in Annapolis on July 1, 1892. The Universityof Maryland's James M. Cain collection is one of its treasures.
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Extractions: James M. Cain James M. Cain was born in Annapolis on July 1, 1892. He was raised in Chestertown, Maryland, and graduated from Washington College, where his father was president. After serving in World War I, he returned to Baltimore where he began working as a reporter. He first worked for the Baltimore American and then for the Baltimore Sun until 1923. After a time in New York, Cain moved to Hollywood. There he tried screenwriting, but found greater success when he turned to fiction. His first novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice , was published in 1934 and was a runaway bestseller. Cain returned to Maryland in 1948, settling in Hyattsville. He continued to write and was a familiar figure on the College Park campus. James M. Cain died October 27th, 1977. Cain did not write mysteries or detective fiction; he wrote novels of crime, sex and violence. The majority of Cain's plots follow the same predictable plan: a man falls for a woman, becomes involved in criminal activity with the woman, and is eventually betrayed by the woman. Although predictable, this basic plot line was used to great success, and continues to be serviceable today such as in the Cain-inspired films Body Heat or Blood Simple . Cain's writing style is hard boiled, pared down to essential phrases with terse, almost brutal simplicity.
James M. Cain
James M. Cain. by William Marling. 23. 1 Roy Hoopes, Cain The Biography of JamesM. Cain (New York Holt, 1982), 20. 2 Ibid. 3 Hoopes, 22. 4 Hoopes, 3031.
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Extractions: James M. Cain by William Marling James M. Cain Born in 1892 to an Irish family in tidewater Maryland, Cain grew up in an atmosphere that he once described as "feinschmecker Catholicism," meaning that his parents were "gourmets of religious ritual." They attended mass regularly because "the services were mounted in a manner worthy of Ziegfeld." By thirteen, Cain did not believe a word of the "whole mumbo-jumbo, especially the confessional, where I was faking and suddenly knew that the priest knew it." Not surprisingly, Cain's narratives are, at base, "faked confessions." Cain's first home was a faculty duplex (now the Paca-Carroll student dorm) at St. John's College in Annapolis, where his father, who had played football and rowed at Yale, was professor of math and English. Handsome and flamboyant, he overshadowed Cain's mother, a gifted soprano who nurtured the writer's interest in music. While his father rose through the ranks to become vice-president of St. John's, Cain led a bucolic life with his three sisters and brother in the genteel colonial capitol. He skipped several grades and, after the family moved across the Chesapeake Bay to Chestertown, where his father became president of Washington College, he entered that college's prep school at twelve. He entered the College itself at fourteen, "a midget among giants," socially inept but coasting intellectually. He main concern was looking and acting older, styling himself as a pool shark and playing the iconoclast. He edited the college magazine and was class vice-president, but he had no idea what he wanted to do when he graduated at eighteen in 1910.
James M. Cain
James M. Cain. Biography. Novels. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934);Serenade (1937); Mildred Pierce (1941); Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1942);
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Extractions: James M. Cain Past All Dishonor Sinful Woman The Moth Jealous Woman The Root of His Evil Galatea Mignon The Magician's Wife Rainbow's End The Institute Cloud Nine The Enchanted Isle Algiers (1938) (screenplay) Wife, Husband and Friend (1939) (novel) Stand Up and Fight (1939) (screenplay) When Tomorrow Comes (1939) (story) Money and the Woman (1940) (story) Ossessione (1942) (novel The Postman Always Rings Twice) Double Indemnity (1944) (novel) Gypsy Wildcat (1944) (screenplay) Mildred Pierce (1945) (novel) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) (novel) Everybody Does It (1949) (screenplay) Slightly Scarlet (1956) (novel Love's Lovely Counterfeit) Serenade (1956) (novel) Interlude (1957) (story) Double Indemnity (1973) (TV, novel)
Who2 Profile: James M. Cain
JAMES M. CAIN Writer. Name at birth James Mallahan Cain James America.James M. Cain Career background from the Books and Writers site,
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Extractions: JAMES M. CAIN Writer Name at birth: James Mallahan Cain James M. Cain is one of the most famous of the hard-boiled fiction writers who came to prominence in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. His place in history is further assured by the film adaptations of three of his novels, classics in film noir Double Indemnity (1944, starring Barbara Stanwyck Mildred Pierce (1945, starring Joan Crawford ) and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946, starring Lana Turner ). Raised and educated in Maryland, Cain served in the military in France during World War I, then worked in Baltimore as a journalist and teacher during the 1920s. Between 1932 and 1947 he lived in southern California, writing essays, short stories, novels and screenplays. His unsentimental crime story The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) was a popular success, and Cain followed up with more hits, including Serenade Mildred Pierce (1941) and the serialized Double Indemnity (1942). In 1947 he returned to Maryland and continued writing, but it is generally held that his best work was from before World War II.
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James M. Cain
James M. Cain 18921977 James Mallahan Cain was born in Annapolis. He grewup in Chestertown, Maryland, and graduated from Washington College.
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Extractions: James M. Cain James Mallahan Cain was born in Annapolis. He grew up in Chestertown, Maryland, and graduated from Washington College. After serving in the First World War, he returned to Baltimore where he began working as a reporter. He worked for the Baltimore American and the Baltimore Sun . Later he moved to Hollywood where he tried screenwriting, but found greater success when he turned to fiction. In 1948, he returned to Maryland and settled in Hyatsville. Titles and year of publication: 1) The Postman Allways Rings Twice 2) Serenade 3) Mildred Pierce 4) Love's Lovely Counterfeit 5) Career in C Major and other stories (Also published as: Everybody Does It) (short stories) 6) Double Indemnity 7) The Embezzler 8) Three of a Kind (Contains: Career in C Major, The Embezzler, and Double Indemnity) 9) Past All Dishonor 10) The Butterfly 11) The Moth 12) Sinful Woman 13) Three of Hearts (Contains: Love's Lovely Counterfeit, Past All Dishonor, and The Butterfly) 14) Jealous Woman 15) The Root of His Evil (Also published as: Shameless) 16) Galatea 17) Mignon 18) The Magician's Wife 19) Rainbow's End 20) The Institute 21) The Baby in the Icebox (short stories) 22) Cloud Nine 23) The Enchanted Isle Back
James M Cain @ Unverse
James M Cain at Unverse Books, pictures, ideas for the unversed. Books Pastall dishonor. Books, DVDs, CDs, videos and stuffBooks James M Cain.
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Nocturne Books - James M Cain
James M Cain A good movie needs good material here are three great booksmade into great movies. This page was last updated on Mar 17, 2001.
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Extractions: James M Cain A good movie needs good material - here are three great books made into great movies. Double Indemnity An unfaithful and unscrupulous wife exploits a morally inert insurance salesman in a scheme to murder her husband and collect his insurance. Abe Books Powell's The Postman Always Rings Twice The sultry young wife of a diner owner conspires with an aimless drifter to murder her husband. Abe Books Powell's Mildred Pierce A beautiful divorcee and her daughter share the same ambitions and talent for exploitation. Abe Books Powell's Back to the Nocturne Home Page ::: Back to Nocturne Books
James M. Cain
JAMES M. CAIN. NonSeries Books The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934).Serenade (1937). Mildred Pierce (1941). Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1942).
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Extractions: AUTHORS: A B C D ... W - X - Y Z CHARACTERS: A B C D ... W - X - Y Z missisppirivers What's New Archives Mystery Links FAQ ... Home JAMES M. CAIN Non-Series Books: The Postman Always Rings Twice Serenade (1937) Mildred Pierce Love's Lovely Counterfeit (1942) Double Indemnity Career in C Major [SS] (1953 The Embezzler (1944) Past All Dishonor (1946) The Butterfly (1947) The Sinful Woman (1947) The Moth (1948) Jealous Woman (1950) Galatea (1953) The Root of His Evil (1954)
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Three by cain james m. Cain Trade Paperback Vintage Fiction Mystery Detective 0-679-72323-4 May 1989 $ 14.00 All three books are written with an
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Friends of Acapedia James M. Cain. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.(There is currently no text in this page). Current Events. Sciences.
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James M. Cain, James M. Cain
Translate this page CONTACTAR. James M. cain james m. Cain guionista. Filmografía como guionistaBloqueo. (1938) Blockade Perdición. (1944) Double Indemnity Alma en suplicio.
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Mystery Guide - Double Indemnity By James M. Cain
Mystery Guide review of Double Indemnity by james M. cain Double Indemnity. james M. cain. REVIEW. Rating 5 (Superb)
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Extractions: REVIEW Rating: 5 (Superb) T he title refers to the double benefit paid by some insurance companies on railroad-related deaths. These accidents were rare in an actuarial sense, but very much in the mind of the public due to recent sensational cases. The insurance industry figured that the PR benefit of offering double indemnity would far outweigh the actual cost of paying double on what few claims were made. Of course, if you get to pick the time and place of accidental death, then you might as well double your pleasure by making sure that the death happens next to a train. Right? Such is the logic employed by Walter Huff, insurance salesman, and his lover, Mrs. Phyllis Nirdlinger, as they take their stab at the perfect murder. It's as difficult to be perfect in murder as in anything else, but Huff and Nirdlinger make a good try at it. Their planning is meticulous, and their execution is pretty fair, given the obstacles. The tough part is the aftermath: the waiting, the stonewall act, the united front.
James M. Cain - Kurzbiographie Und Werke
Kurzbiographie und Werke des amerikanischen Schriftstellers (18921977).
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Extractions: James M. Cain Gilt als einer der berühmtesten Autoren des amerikanischen »hartgesottenen« Krimis, obwohl er eigentlich nie einen »reinen« Krimi geschrieben hat. Seine Romane kreisen um Liebe und Mord und werden häufig aus der Perspektive des »Verbrechers« geschildert. Man vergleicht ihn zu Recht mit Raymond Chandler und Ross MacDonald, aber auch mit Schriftstellern wie Steinbeck, Hemingway und B. Traven. Thomas Mann, der während seines Aufenthalts in den USA Cain persönlich kennenlernte, schätzte seine Romane sehr und berichtete in den Tagebuchnotizen ausführlich über seine Lektüre des Romans »Serenade«. James M. Cain wurde 1892 in Annapolis, Maryland, geboren. Studium am Washington College, plante Sängerberuf. Im 1. Weltkrieg als Soldat in Frankreich. Bekanntschaft mit H.L. Mencken, der ihn förderte und ermutigte. Zeitweilig auch als Drehbuchautor in Hollywood tätig. Auf der Höhe seines Ruhmes Ende der Vierzigerjahre einer der bekanntesten amerikanischen Schriftsteller. Gestorben 1977 in Hyattsville, Maryland. Werke Pastorale , Kurzgeschichte, 1928, dt.
Mystery Guide - The Postman Always Rings Twice By James M. Cain
The Postman Always Rings Twice. james M. cain. REVIEW. Rating 5 (Superb)
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Extractions: REVIEW Rating: 5 (Superb) T his spare, steamy, hard-boiled little book was Cain's first novel, and helped secure both his reputation and his notoriety. Said to have been the inspiration for Camus' The Stranger , it also joins excellent company in having been banned in Boston. In its terseness and amoral perspective, it was highly influential on a generation of crime fiction writers, most notably Jim Thompson. As the novel starts, Frank Chambers drifts into a roadside restaurant, having hitchhiked and stolen rides through much of California. The restaurant is run by a Greek man and his much younger wife. The attraction between Chambers and the wife is instant, and it is also established (partly through a series of ethnic slurs) that her marriage is merely one of convenience. Soon she and Chambers are a team, and see the restauranteur as the only obstacle to their happiness. Some of what follows is predictable, but the detail and cold-bloodedness that Cain brings to the telling are striking. A bonus is the nice courtroom puzzle in the center of the book, which pits Chambers against the wife in a true Prisoner's Dilemma.
Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Prince Of Darkness
William Preston Robertson on hardboiled writer james M. cain's novels vs. the film noirs that were made from them.
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Popular Press Catalog - Bowling Green State University
Short presentation of the book edited by Roy Hoopes.
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Extractions: Popular Press Previous Home Next edited by Roy Hoopes The late James M. Cain was a newspaperman, playwright and novelist. Cain is best known for his controversial novels: The Postman Always Rings Twice Double Indemnity Mildred Pierce Serenade The Butterfly and Past All Dishonor . The first three novels were made into back-to-back blockbuster movies in the mid-1940s. Cain always considered himself a journalist, a "newspaperman who wrote yarns on the side." Cain had a distinguished 60-year career as a journalist. He began his newspaper career on The Baltimore American in 1917, then worked for The Baltimore Sun before enlisting in the Army in 1918. After the war Cain wrote editorials for The New York Sun The American Mercury The Atlantic Monthly The Nation Vanity Fair McCall's Redbook Liberty , and The Ladies Home Journal . When he was in his eighties he began writing articles for The Washington Post and literally spent his last living hours at his typewriter. The book is fascinating reading and includes some of Cain's best articles and essays. The material is sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, and provides a unique look at 60 years of history.
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