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  2. George M. Cohan - Wikipedia

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    Cohan and his sister Josie in the 1890s. Cohan was born in 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Irish Catholic parents.A baptismal certificate from St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church (which gave the wrong first name for his mother) indicated that Cohan was born on July 3, but he and his family always insisted that he had been "born on the Fourth of July!"

  3. Four Cohans - Wikipedia

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    The Four Cohans was a late 19th-century American vaudeville family act that introduced 20th-century Broadway legend George M. Cohan to show business. It consisted of father Jeremiah "Jere" Cohan (1848–1917), mother Helen "Nellie" Costigan Cohan (1854–1928), daughter Josephine "Josie" Cohan Niblo (1876–1916), and son George M. Cohan (1878–1942).

  4. Mary Cohan - Wikipedia

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    Mary Cohan (1909–1983), also known as Mary Cohan Ronkin, was an American Broadway composer and lyricist, and the middle daughter of vaudeville and Broadway entertainer George M. Cohan. George's mother's middle name was Mary, and it is believed that his daughter was named after her. (Mary's mother was named Agnes Mary Nolan.) Following a brief ...

  5. Category:Cohan family - Wikipedia

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    George M. Cohan (4 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Cohan family" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.

  6. Eddie Foy - Wikipedia

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    The family's story was filmed in 1955 as The Seven Little Foys with Bob Hope as Foy and James Cagney as George M. Cohan; Charley Foy narrated. Eddie Foy Jr. appeared as his father in four films – Frontier Marshal (1939), Lillian Russell (1940), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and Wilson (1944) – as well as in a television version of The Seven ...

  7. Little Johnny Jones - Wikipedia

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    Little Johnny Jones was produced by Sam H. Harris and directed by George M. Cohan, who also performed in it. Other members of The Four Cohans in the cast were his parents, and his then wife Ethel Levey , who had replaced Cohan's sister Josie in the family act.

  8. George M! - Wikipedia

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    George M! is a Broadway musical based on the life of George M. Cohan, the biggest Broadway star of his day who was known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway." The book for the musical was written by Michael Stewart , John Pascal , and Francine Pascal .

  9. Haverstraw (village), New York - Wikipedia

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    George M. Cohan, the "Father of Modern Broadway", had his debut playing the violin at the Waldron's Opera House on Broadway in the village. The Cohan family stayed in Haverstraw during summer while making their rounds on the vaudeville circuit. The Cohans lived on Division Street, next to a major clay pit in the Village.