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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner William Cagney (associate) |
| Written by | Robert Buckner Edmund Joseph Uncredited: Julius J. Epstein Philip G. Epstein |
| Starring | James Cagney Joan Leslie Walter Huston Richard Whorf |
| Music by | Songs: George M. Cohan Score: Ray Heindorf Heinz Roemheld (both uncredited) |
| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Editing by | George Amy |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | 6 June 1942 |
| Running time | 126 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
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",[1] starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Richard Whorf, and featuring Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney.
The movie 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 famous "script doctors" twin brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein.
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Background and production
The song "Yankee Doodle Boy" was Cohan's trademark piece, a patriotic pastiche drawing from the lyrics and melody of the old Revolutionary War number, "Yankee Doodle". Other Cohan tunes in the movie include "Give My Regards to Broadway", "Harrigan", "Mary's a Grand Old Name", "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Over There".
Cagney was a fitting choice for the role, as a fellow Irish-American who had been a song-and-dance man himself early in his career. His unique and seemingly odd presentation style, of half-singing and half-reciting the songs, reflected the style that Cohan himself used. His natural dance style and physique were also a good match for Cohan. Newspapers at the time reported that Cagney intended to consciously imitate Cohan's song-and-dance style, but to play the normal part of the acting in his own style. Although director Curtiz was famous for being a taskmaster, he also gave his actors some latitude. Cagney and other players improvised a number of "bits of business", as Cagney called them.
Although a number of the biographical particulars of the movie are Hollywood-ized fiction (omitting the fact that Cohan divorced and remarried, for example, and taking some liberties with the chronology of Cohan's life), care was taken to make the sets, costumes and dance steps match the original stage presentations. This effort was aided significantly by a former associate of Cohan's, Jack Boyle, who knew the original productions well. Boyle also appeared in the film in some of the dancing groups.
Cast
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Cast notes:
- James Cagney reprised the role of George M. Cohan in the movie The Seven Little Foys, but agreed only on the condition that he receive no money – he did the film as a tribute to Eddie Foy. In Yankee Doodle Dandy, Eddie Foy, Jr. played the role of his own father.
- Actress Jeanne Cagney, who played the part of Cohan's sister, was Jimmy Cagney's real-life sister.[3] Cagney's brother, William Cagney, was the Associate Producer of the film.[4]
- Rosemary DeCamp, who played Cagney's mother, was 11 years younger than Cagney.[5]
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was played by Captain Jack Young, a lookalike who is seen only from the back. An impressionist, Art Gilmore, provided the voice of Roosevelt, uncredited.[6]
Awards and honors
The film won Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (James Cagney), Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture and Best Sound, Recording. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Walter Huston), Best Director, Best Film Editing for George Amy, Best Picture and Best Writing, Original Story. 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".
In 1998, this film ranked #100 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list. In 2006 it was ranked #18 on AFI's 100 Years of Musicals. The 2005 AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes also voted James Cagney's line of "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." number 97 on its list.
Patriotic themes
A popular myth about this movie, or at least a stretching of the truth, was that it was written in response to accusations that James Cagney was a communist. Supposedly, Cagney learned that he was in danger of being blacklisted for having communist sympathies, so he decided to make the most jingoistic movie he possibly could, and thus clear his name. This myth has its chronology a bit askew, as the McCarthy Era did not begin until the early 1950s. Also the Second Red Scare did not begin until the late 1940s, well after the film was made. In other versions of this legend, either Robert Buckner or Edmund Joseph were the accused.
The DVD specials discuss this story in some detail. A Congressman named Martin Dies was investigating possible communist influence in Hollywood in 1940; he in fact had a cordial meeting with Cagney. The actor reassured him that, although he was a liberal and supported Roosevelt's New Deal, he was also a patriot who had nothing to do with communism. That was the end of it, except that James' producer-brother William saw the Cohan story as a good opportunity to dispel any possible concerns about Cagney's loyalty. It was not written in response to the Dies investigation, as Cohan himself had been shopping his own story around for a while before Jack L. Warner bought the rights, and Cohan retained final approval on all aspects of the film.
As the DVD also points out, production on the film was just a few days old when the Attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. The film's cast and crew resolved to make an uplifting, patriotic film. It was timed to open around Memorial Day in 1942, and was regarded as having achieved its goal in grand fashion.
Colorization
In 1986, Yankee Doodle Dandy was the first computer-colorized film released by entrepreneur Ted Turner.
Notes
- ^ George M. Cohan at the Internet Broadway Database
- ^ Little Johnny Jones at the Internet Broadway Database
- ^ Jeanne Cagney at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ William Cagney at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Rosemary DeCamp at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Yankee Doodle Dandy at the Internet Movie Database
External links
- Yankee Doodle Dandy at the Internet Movie Database
- Yankee Doodle Dandy at the TCM Movie Database
- Yankee Doodle Dandy at Allmovie
- Yankee Doodle Dandy movie posters at MoviePosterDB.com
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