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Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical drama film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway". [2] It stars James Cagney , Joan Leslie , Walter Huston , and Richard Whorf , and features Irene Manning , George Tobias , Rosemary DeCamp , Jeanne Cagney , and Vera Lewis .
Yankee Doodle Dandy: 1942: 1986: Turner Entertainment (Color Systems Technology [3]) You Can't Take It With You: 1938: 1995: Columbia Pictures (CST Entertainment Imaging Inc.) [731] You Don't Know What You're Doin'! 1931: 1992: Turner Entertainment [732] You Nazty Spy! 1940: 2004: Columbia Pictures (West Wing Studios) [6] You Ought to Be in ...
Yankee Doodle went to town A-riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his cap And called it macaroni. [Chorus] Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy. Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Gooding, [a] And there we saw the men and boys As thick as hasty pudding. [Chorus]
Born on the Fourth of July, published in 1976, is the best-selling autobiography by Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist. Kovic was born on July 4, 1946, and his book's ironic title echoed a famous line from George M. Cohan's patriotic 1904 song, "The Yankee Doodle Boy" (also known as "Yankee Doodle Dandy").
The song was performed by James Cagney and Joan Leslie in the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy, a biopic of Cohan's life. In that film it was portrayed as an early work of Cohan's that he was shopping around.
The other nine nominated pictures were 49th Parallel; Kings Row; The Magnificent Ambersons; The Pied Piper; The Pride of the Yankees; Random Harvest; The Talk of the Town; Wake Island; and Yankee Doodle Dandy. Casablanca was released in 1942, but won its three Oscars in 1944.
[136] However, Warner Bros., perhaps searching for another Yankee Doodle Dandy, [136] assigned Cagney a musical for his next picture, 1950's The West Point Story with Doris Day, an actress he admired. [137] His next film, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, was another gangster movie, which was the first by Cagney Productions since its acquisition.
In British North America, prior to American Revolution (1765–1791), a British version of the song "Yankee Doodle" in its first verse: "Yankee Doodle went to town, / Upon a little pony; / He stuck a feather in his hat, / And called it Macoroni … ." and chorus: "Yankee Doodle, keep it up, / Yankee Doodle Dandy, / Mind the music and the step ...