biography
| name: |
Cain, James M(allahan)
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pronunciation:
[kayn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1977)
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| biography:
| Writer and screenwriter, born in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. He trained as a singer, then worked as a teacher and journalist before achieving fame in the 1930s and 1940s as a Hollywood screenwriter and novelist. His books, many adapted into popular films, treated criminals, sex, and money with a lean, tough realism, and include The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936), Mildred Pierce (1941), and The Institute (1976). |
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