Yankee Doodle Dandy

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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

NR 05/29/1942 (US) Drama, Music 2h 6m

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Get ready to Laugh, to Sing, to Shout! ...For here comes Uncle Sam's Star Spangled Yankee Doodle Dandy!

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A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Michael Curtiz

Director
Julius J. Epstein

Screenplay
Robert Buckner

Screenplay
Philip G. Epstein

Screenplay
Edmund Joseph

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James Cagney

George M. Cohan
Joan Leslie

Mary
Walter Huston

Jerry Cohan
Richard Whorf

Sam Harris
Irene Manning

Fay Templeton
George Tobias

Dietz
Rosemary DeCamp

Nellie Cohan
Jeanne Cagney

Josie Cohan
Frances Langford

Singer
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A review by John Chard

80%

Written by John Chard on February 22, 2020

Being versatile, I played my mother's father.

Yankee Doodle Dandy is directed by Michael Curtiz and collectively written by Robert Buckner, Edmund Joseph, Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein. It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney.

This is a biographical interpretation of the life of renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan (Cagney). As usual it is advised to seek out facts about the person the biography is about - if one so wishes of course to see how t... read the rest.

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