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Name: Yankee Doodle Dandy
Released: 1942-6-6
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning

Yankee Doodle Dandy

UR
2h 7m
1942

91%

Legendary actor James Cagney stars in the role for which he won an Academy Award--the life of singer, dancer and songwriter George M. Cohan, a true Yankee Doodle Dandy. This nonstop musical tour de force sings, dances and celebrates the life and career of a music man who lifted a nation, the first entertainer awarded the United States Congressional Medal of Honor for his contribution to morale. From his early days as a vaudeville performer to his stardom on Broadway, George M. Cohan composed the songs that defined his generation.

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Producer:

Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner

Writer:

Robert Buckner, Edmund Joseph

Cast:

James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, Jeanne Cagney, George Tobias, Rosemary De Camp, Rosemary DeCamp, Frances Langford, George Barbier, S.Z. Sakall, Walter Catlett, Douglas Croft, Eddie Foy Jr., Minor Watson

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

91%

Critics Consensus: James Cagney deploys his musical gifts to galvanizing effect in Yankee Doodle Dandy, a celebration of patriotic fervor as much as it is a biopic of George M. Cohan.

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

How sensational is Cagney? The real George M. Cohan saw the film shortly before he died of cancer in 1942 and, marveling at Cagney’s performance, exclaimed, "My God, what an act to follow!"

“Yankee Doodle Dandy” harks back to the golden days of cinema and is exceptional even among Hollywood’s greatest musicals.

A perfect tribute to a figure who embodied Broadway musicals and its patriotic jingles during the First World War.

Yankee Doodle Dandy might take liberties with Cohan's life but Cagney is at his finest in this celebration of the musical multi-hyphenate entertainer.