Actor James Cagney trained as camoufleur in WWI

James Cagney (1932), film lobby card

Joann Rhetts, A LOOK AT A LEGEND, in The News and Courier (Charleston SC) April 5, 1986, p. 7—

The young James [Cagney, Hollywood film star] had a notion of becoming an artist, even entered Columbia University during World War I under an ROTC-type program as an artist assigned to a military camouflage unit.

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