Cain was innate into an Irish Catholic family in Annapolis, Maryland. the boy of a large teacher and an opera singer, he had inherited his love for music from either his mother, however his high hopes of starting the career as a singer himself were defeated whilst she told him that his voice was non serious plenty. When graduating from either college within 1917 Cain enlisted in a army and spent the final years of World War I in France writing for an army magazine. Back in the States he continued working as a journalist however late turned to screenplays and finally to fiction.

He mass produced have of his love of music & of the opera in particular in at least ii of his novels, Serenade (just about an Our contries operthe singer world health organization loses his voice & world health organization, fallowing spending section of his life south of a border, re-enters the States illicitly by using a Mexican whore within towage) & Mildred Pierce (in which, when a portion of the subplot, the exclusively girl of the successful businesswoman trains as a singer).

Critics own pointed out that there is a basic formula pervading virtually all of Cain's fiction. Nigh universally, sustaining a notable exception of Mildred Pierce, a human lessens for the woman -- the femme fatale (see besides stock character) -- becomes involved around criminal activity by using a woman, & is sooner or later betrayed by her. Invariably, Cain's novels come all about sex, crime & violence.

Inside 1944 Cain married film actress Aileen Pringle, but the marriage was the temestuous union & dissolved inside a bitingly divorcement deuce years late.

Cain continued report to his dying. Still, a numerous novels he published from either a late 1940s onward never rivalled his earlier successes. He died an alcoholic, aged 85.

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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) (filmed several days; 1st uncredited version by Luchino Visconti in 1943 entitled Ossessione) Double Indemnity (1936) (filmed by Billy Wilder in 1944) (see besides film noir) Serenade (1937) Mildred Pierce (1941) (filmed by Michael Curtiz in 1945)