ID

FBW001393      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1942

Original Title

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Produced by

Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Burbank, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: James Cagney; Script: Robert Buckner, Edmund Joseph; Camera: James Wong Howe; Editing: George Amy; Sound recording: Everett A. Brown; Art direction: Carl Jules Weyl; Technical consultant: William Collier, Sr.; Costumes: Milo Anderson; Makeup: Perc Westmore; Music: Leo F. Forbstein; Choreography: Leroy Prinz, Seymor Felix, John Boyle

Cast

James Cagney (George M. Cohan); Joan Leslie (Mary); Walter Huston (Jerry Cohan); Richard Whorf (Sam Harris); George Tobias (Dietz); Irene Manning (Fay Templeton); Rosemary DeCamp (Nellie Cohan); Jeanne Cagney (Josie Cohan); S.Z. Sakall (Schwab); George Barbier (Erlanger); Walter Catlett (Manager); Frances Langford (Nora Bayes); Minor Watson (Ed Albee); Eddie Foy, Jr. (Eddie Foy); Chester Clute (Harold Goff); Douglas Croft (George M. Cohan at Age 13); Patsy Lee Parsons (Josie at Age 12); Jack Young (Franklin D. Roosevelt); Audrey Long (Receptionist); Odette Myrtil (Mme. Bartholdi); Clinton Rosemond (White House Butler); Spencer Charters (Stage Manager in Providence); Dorothy Kelly; Marijo James (Sister Act); Henry Blair (George at Age 7); Jo Ann Marlowe (Josie at Age 6); Thomas Jackson (Stage Manager); Phyllis Kennedy (Fanny); Pat Flaherty (White House Guard); Leon Belasco (Magician); Syd Saylor (Star Boarder); William B. Davidson (New York Stage Manager); Harry Hayden (Dr. Lewellyn); Francis Pierlot (Dr. Anderson); Charles Smith; Joyce Reynolds; Dick Chandlee; Joyce Horne (Teenager); Frank Faylen (Sergeant); Wallis Clark (Theodore Roosevelt); Georgia Carroll (Betsy Ross); Joan Winfield (Sally); Dick Wessel; James Flavin (Union Army Veterans); Sailor Vincent (Schultz in "Peck's Bad Boy"); Fred Kelsey (Irish Cop in "Peck's Bad Boy"); Tom Dugan (Actor at Railway Station); Garry Owen (Army Clerk); Murray Alper (Wise Guy); Creighton Hale (Telegraph Operator); Ruth Robinson (Nurse); Eddie Acuff; Walter Brooke; Bruce Edwards; William Hopper (Reporter); William Forrest; Edward Keane (Critics); Dolores Moran (Girl); Poppy Wilde; Jess Lee Brooks (Chorus Girls in "Little Johnny Jones" Number); Jerrie Lynne (Singer); Vivian Austin (Pianist)

Length

3447 m / 126'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

The film shows the portrait of song writer George M. Cohan, as well as a portrait of early 20th century America.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US); Biography; Music; USA

Bibliography

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