Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 biographical film about George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway".
- Directed by Michael Curtiz. Written by Robert Buckner, Edmund Joseph, Julius J. Epstein (uncredited), and Philip G. Epstein (uncredited).
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[edit] George M. Cohan
- My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
- Note: ranked #97 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
- It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us.
[edit] Eddie Foy
- [reading posters advertising Cohan's latest success] "Cohan and Harris present George Washington, Jr. starring the author and composer George M. Cohan."..."George M. Cohan and his royal family. Books and lyrics, music and directed by George M. Cohan. Printed by Sam Divensky". That must be Cohan's alias.
[edit] Dialogue
- Critic #1: I call it a hit. What'll your review say?
- Critic #2: I like it too, so I guess I'll pan it.
- George M. Cohan: [sniffing] Mmmmm... ham or bacon?
- Mary Cohan: Bacon.
- George M. Cohan: Good. Ham makes me self-conscious.
- George M. Cohan: Thanks, Sam. It'll be great as long as those critics don't start to eat off my leg.
- Sam Harris: Oh, don't worry about the critics! You got a smash hit! It's in the air, kid! It's in the air! You can't stop anything that's in the air!
- [a group of soldiers is marching off to fight in World War II, singing Cohan's World War I song, "Over There"]
- Sergeant on parade: What's the matter, old timer? Don't you remember this song?
- George M. Cohan: Seems to me I do.
- Sergeant on parade: Well, I don't hear anything.
- [Cohan starts singing along, with tears coming into his eyes]
[edit] Taglines
- The Yankee Doodle Dandiest Entertainment of 'em all!
- Based on the story of GEORGE M. COHAN with the Greatest of all his Great Music
- Get ready to Laugh, to Sing, to Shout! ...For here comes Uncle Sam's Star Spangled Yankee Doodle Dandy!
[edit] Cast
- James Cagney - George M. Cohan
- Joan Leslie - Mary Cohan
- Eddie Foy - Eddie Foy
- 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 - Nora Bayes
- George Barbier - Erlanger
- S. Z. Sakall - Schwab
- Walter Catlett - Theatre Manager
- Minor Watson - Albee
- Chester Clute - Goff
- Odette Myrtil - Madame Bartholdi
- Douglas Croft - George M. Cohan, age 13
- Patsy Parsons - Josie Cohan, age 12
[edit] External links
- Yankee Doodle Dandy quotes at the Internet Movie Database
