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| - Yankee Doodle Dandy is a children's song/patriotic song that first appeared in Rock with Barney.
- A brave song about a stoic, fearsome man who made himself visible to the cowering public. This American Standard was written by the 18th century English. It's a song about a cowardly public who, when faced with the magnificent and heroic Yankee Doodle Dandy, are forced to run to their prissy Parlimentary leadership in hopes of a peaceful and affable understanding with the goodly giant. Robert Wuhl has offered a separate and wholly unsubstantiated account of the song's origins on his show "Assume The Position", but who believes that wanker anyway?
- Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 film starring James Cagney and telling the life story of Broadway song-and-dance man George M. Cohan, the composer of songs such as "Over There", "You're a Grand Old Flag", and "Give My Regards To Broadway". Cohan's life is depicted from his beginnings with his family's vaudeville act, to fame and fortune as a Broadway composer and American patriot. Yankee Doodle Dandy was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1993.
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| - Yankee Doodle Dandy is a children's song/patriotic song that first appeared in Rock with Barney.
- A brave song about a stoic, fearsome man who made himself visible to the cowering public. This American Standard was written by the 18th century English. It's a song about a cowardly public who, when faced with the magnificent and heroic Yankee Doodle Dandy, are forced to run to their prissy Parlimentary leadership in hopes of a peaceful and affable understanding with the goodly giant. Robert Wuhl has offered a separate and wholly unsubstantiated account of the song's origins on his show "Assume The Position", but who believes that wanker anyway? Image:RoarkeTattoo.jpg Welcome To Wikiality.comPlease everyone, you are invitedto edit this page! Image:SallyStruthers.jpg Hi, I'm Sally Struthers, and I'm here to tell you how you can help pages on Wikiality.com.In the same amount of time it takes to drink one cup of coffee, you can fill an internets tube with the truthiness it so desperately needs.Please join me in this cause. Thank You. Image:OnozOmgAni.gif Image:FTroopCast.jpg Oh No!Yankee Doodle Dandyneeds help fast!Quick! Someone call the cavalry!
- Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 film starring James Cagney and telling the life story of Broadway song-and-dance man George M. Cohan, the composer of songs such as "Over There", "You're a Grand Old Flag", and "Give My Regards To Broadway". Cohan's life is depicted from his beginnings with his family's vaudeville act, to fame and fortune as a Broadway composer and American patriot. Yankee Doodle Dandy was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1993.
* Academy Award: Won three Oscars, including Best Actor for Cagney.
* Biopic
* Call Back: We see Cohan composing the melody to "Over There", followed by the song being performed at a rally as America enters World War I. 25 years later, as America enters World War II, the song is sung again.
* Eagle Land: One of the most unapologetic Flavor 1 examples ever made.
* Happily Married: George and Mary (played by Joan Leslie).
* History Marches On: Cagney as a dancing Franklin Delano Roosevelt comes off as odd to a modern viewer, but back in the day Roosevelt's paralysis was carefully concealed from the public.
* Meaningful Echo: When "The 4 Cohans" perform together, George M. Cohan thanks the audience by saying, "My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you and I thank you." At the end of the movie when President Franklin Roosevelt presents him with the Medal of Freedom, Cohen thanked the President with those same words.
* The Musical Musical: The presentation of Cohan's music and Cagney's recreation of Cohan's performances are far more accurate than the portrayal of Cohan's life story.
* Off the Record: "Off the Record" from the musical I'd Rather Be Right is prominently featured.
* Playing Against Type: Cagney actually had quite a bit of experience in musical theater. However, his film career had typecast him as a tough guy after he starred in hit gangster films like The Public Enemy and Angels with Dirty Faces.
* Real Life Writes the Plot: Production on this film started just a few days before the attack on Pearl Harbor. After the attack, Warner Brothers then decided to make the most over-the-top patriotic film ever, and they did.
* Significant Birth Date: The hero of this super-patriotic film was born on the 4th of July.
* Throw It In: The most famous scene in the film, where Cohan tap-dances down a White House staircase, was ad-libbed by Cagney and done without any rehearsal.
* Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The version of Cohan's life presented in the film is mostly fictional.
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