Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner) is possibly the most genial screen biography ever made. Few films have bestowed such loving care on any hero as this one does on beaming, buoyant, wry-mouthed George M. (for Michael) Cohan. The result is a nostalgic, accurate re-creation of a historic era of U.S. show business. Not that the picture is a strict reconstruction of the playwright-songwright-actor-producer-hoofer's life. But star-spangled George M. Cohan, now 63, ailing, and confined to his upstate New York farm, was the kind of entertainer who really liked to entertain people...
Master Rooney, Metro's No. 1 asset, now 21 and draftable, is given enough rope to hang himself. He does three so-called impersonations. His Harry Lauder and George M. Cohan are scarcely distinguishable; his conception of Carmen Miranda is painful. Apparently there is nothing he cannot do, except behave himself...
Although the plot is a bit congested, and tries over-zealously to be socially significant, They Can't Get You Down is full of sprightly tunes, includes some dazzling dance routines. The title song, a combination Dale Carnegie-George M. Cohan inspirational piece addressed to "the little guy," has the swing of a fine marching song. But the hit of the show is a ballad called That Mittel-Europa of Mine, sung by highborn refugees. Sample lyrics...
George M. Cohan had an emergency operation for an abdominal lesion at Manhattan's Flower-Fifth Ave. Hospital. His doctor called it "quite serious," added: "He's going to get over it." ∙∙ In Hollywood Jimmie Durante broke a rib playing the part of a moll in an Apache dance. ∙∙ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis lay in a Petoskey, Mich, hospital after a pneumonia attack. ∙∙ Oldtime Opera Star Lucrezia Bori, 53, turned up in Manhattan with her arm in a sling; she had broken her elbow in a fall off a horse. A piece...
George M. Cohan was at Sam's apartment a few hours after his death. He couldn't talk to reporters. It gave him a lump...