Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marilyn gave out an interview in Boston. She said that he was desperately in love with her and would marry her if I would step aside. 'She waves her baby at him like George M. Cohan waves the American flag,' they quoted Marilyn. Now that was a smart line, but I never believed Marilyn thought it up herself...
...Santa Ana (Calif.) Air Base, he was the nearest thing to an Irving Berlin or George M. Cohan of World War II. Loesser ground out some 200 service songs, including a slap at 4-Fs, They're Either Too Young or Too Old, a parade tune called What Do You Do in the Infantry, and one for the WACs: First Class Private Mary Brown...
...Thornton W. Willett '50 Doris Chambers Bryn Mawr Hastings K. Wright '50 Heloise Pike Colby John E. Wyat '50 Winne Mann Smith Robert M. Young '49 Hannah Blanfox Hunter N. T. Zervas '50 Jacie Van Blarcom Mass. State Melvin L. Zurier '50 Charlotte Braidy Bangor Harold Zirin '50 Joanne Cohan Connecticut
Part of the overall effect of intelligence was undoubtedly achieved by restrained script-writers; much of it is due to the fact that an entertainer's life lends itself better to movies than does a composer's. Both "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (Cohan was primarily an entertainer) and now "The Jolson Story" illustrate the point. Where composers are just composers, and neither necessarily nor usually dramatic personalities, entertainers can entertain in biography as well as in person, and their lives generally have something public and spectacular about them...
George M. Cohan, who loved Broadway and despised Hollywood, turned out to have left his heirs more Hollywooden nickels than stage money. Largest single asset of his $827,384 net estate proved to be his interest in the Yankee Doodle Dandy cinema version of his life: $421,766. "Mr. Broadway's" interest in songs: $65,000; in plays...