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Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, Joan Leslie; TIME, June...
Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney, Walter Huston, Irene Manning, Joan Leslie; TIME, June...
Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, Joan Leslie; TIME, June...
Because its makers took extraordinary pains to be faithful to the intricacies of show business, the show business in Yankee Doodle is extraordinarily good. So is its Grade-A cast, especially Oldtimer Huston and a pretty newcomer named Irene Manning, pleasantly singing and playing the ex-Broadway musiqueen. Fay Templeton...
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...