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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 ...
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").
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]
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.
James Cagney appeared in a play-within-a-play staging of numbers and dances from Little Johnny Jones in the 1942 film, Yankee Doodle Dandy. David Cassidy starred in a touring revival in 1981. [ 18 ] After previewing at Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House and touring, [ 19 ] a 1982 revival, adapted by Alfred Uhry and starring Donny Osmond in the ...
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) US; George M. Cohan, played by James Cagney, explains the meaning of the colors of the U.S. Flag to a dozen Boy Scouts during a musical number, You're a Grand Old Flag, written by Mr. Cohan.
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy, A Yankee Doodle, do or die; A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam, Born on the Fourth of July. I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart, She's my Yankee Doodle joy. Yankee Doodle came to London, just to ride the ponies; I am the Yankee Doodle Boy. Footnotes: 1 "All the candy" was late 19th century slang equivalent to "hot stuff".