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Miss Durbin sings a new song (Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year) and an old one (Always) unusually well, bears up well enough under her elementary dramatic burdens. So do Gene Kelly and Richard Whorf (as a newshawk). But Christmas Holiday, an unsubstantial little tragedy at best, runs through their fingers like no-soap in a bathtub...
With Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy in the leading roles, and others like Perey Kilbridge, the witty Yankee taxi driver, Frank Craven and Richard Whorf supporting them, the entire cast turns in a collectively good job of acting. The picture starts with the death of Robert Forest, a prominent and well loved politician, soldier, and public benefactor who turns out to be an enemy agent. Tracy, an admiring newspaper man back from the world battlefronts, dedicates himself to writing the story of Forest's life. He encounters Katharine Hephurn, Forest's wife, and in the process of investigation discovers that...
Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, Joan Leslie; TIME, June...
Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, Joan Leslie; TIME, June...
...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 to the "old man". "I sing and I dance and I'm going to New York! Should...