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...neat device, Showman Cohan (James Cagney) tells his life story to Franklin Roosevelt (Captain Jack Young) in the White House, where he is summoned to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. It is the story of a cocky, puckish, talented Irish-American, who accepted the accident of his birth on July 4, 1878 as an implied command to wave the Stars & Stripes forever. Critics called the act corny, but audiences recognized it for what it was: a born showman expressing a sincere emotion...
Yankee Doodle tries hard to squeeze 50 years of Cohan Americana into two hours and six minutes of celluloid. It succeeds best with the early years-the tough, tender, Irish clannishness of The Four Cohans (Father Walter Huston, Mother Rosemary DeCamp, Daughter Jeanne Cagney,† Son Jimmy) and their variety act; Songwriter Cohan's accidental partnership with Sam H. Harris (Richard Whorf), his ambiguous first meeting with his future wife (Joan Leslie), who came backstage while young Cohan was playing his mother's father in Buffalo, N.Y. "I'm 18," she confided...
Canny Showman Cohan knew what he was doing when he insisted that Irish Jimmy Cagney was the one cinemactor who could play him. Smart, alert, hardheaded, Cagney is as typically American as Cohan himself. Like Cohan, he has a transparent personal honesty, a basic audience appeal. Like Cohan, he was once a hoofer...
...Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, $704,425.60. (He was tops for the second year running.) >Cinedoodle Dandy James Cagney...
Captains of the Clouds (James Cagney, Brenda Marshall; TIME, March...