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Yankee Doodle Dandy

Directed by Michael Curtiz
1942
★ 4.1 editorial score

James Cagney was known for gangsters and had started life as a hoofer: he plays George M. Cohan flat out, and improvised the dance down the White House staircase on the day.

“You will find as warm and delightful a musical picture as has hit the screen in years, a corking good entertainment and as affectionate, if not as accurate, a film biography as has ever—yes, ever—been made...Indeed, there is so much in this picture and so many persons that deserve their meed of praise that every one connected with it can stick a feather in his hat and take our word—it's dandy!”
— Bosley Crowther · The New York Times
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1942Depicts World War IIDepicts 1940s

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