Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Genre

drama film, war film, biographical film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 06m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 236 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This musical biography follows the life of George M. Cohan, a famous Broadway songwriter and performer. It shows his rise from a child performer to a celebrated entertainer and his patriotic contributions during wartime.

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What happens

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical drama film about George M. Cohan. It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf, and features Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp, Jeanne Cagney, and Vera Lewis. Joan Leslie's singing voice was partially dubbed by Sally Sweetland. The film was written by Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph, and directed by Michael Curtiz. According to the special edition DVD, significant and uncredited improvements were made to the script by the twin brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein. The film was a major hit for Warner Bros. Pictures, and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning three. In 1993, Yankee Doodle Dandy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", and in 1998, the film was included on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movies list, a compilation of the 100 greatest films in American cinema, ranking number 100. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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