yankee doodle dandy

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#1 ritade45 on 11.12.08 at 2:06 am

This was and still is my favorite all time movie. After just seeing a rare clip of the real Cohan dancing and acting I can see how close Cagney came to personifying him. Ain’t nothin like the real thing but Cagney gave him a run for his money!!!

#2 SurfinBird63 on 11.12.08 at 2:55 am

i know where you got the grapefruit thing
James Cagney in Public Enemy

#3 nationalconey on 11.14.08 at 3:49 am

Not bad.
It would be better if he’d smash a grapefruit in the face of one of those chicks with the umbrella.

#4 Peero1888 on 11.16.08 at 7:04 pm

glasgow celtic champions!

#5 pOlArBeArSrOcK08 on 11.19.08 at 2:53 am

woo im doing this for ma novelty woo
go briton

#6 54spiritedwill54 on 11.19.08 at 10:10 am

I loved this movie!

#7 draconat1 on 11.22.08 at 8:09 pm

say yes to the north

#8 johnfinbarburke on 11.26.08 at 7:12 am

did she tell wstorys bout the great man . ?

#9 greendonth on 11.28.08 at 3:53 pm

featured in the final jeopardy answer today

#10 SANDYH54 on 11.30.08 at 7:55 am

brilliant x

#11 glammagirlxo on 11.30.08 at 10:17 pm

james cagney is my grandmothers couzin– no joke!

#12 bloodnokian on 12.02.08 at 10:34 pm

Look at him Ma, top of the world

#13 rustyalien on 12.05.08 at 4:40 pm

my god, what a great time to know people were as patraotic as this…god bless this time of era

#14 imthegreenfaiiry on 12.08.08 at 4:48 am

his dancing is phenomenal!

#15 npspec34 on 12.10.08 at 10:17 pm

Drove down George M. Cohan Boulevard in Providence today as it is the city of his birth. The song is actually “Yankee Doodle Boy” and is based on the real life Tod Sloan. Congress awarded Cohan a medal for “Over There” which was the unofficial anthem of the Great War or WWI as we started to number them.

#16 daylightlover on 12.14.08 at 3:30 am

A real man.

#17 Littlelotte1881 on 12.14.08 at 7:24 pm

I love this man!

#18 Littlelotte1881 on 12.17.08 at 3:26 pm

Not exactly, that’s White Heat.

#19 fruityshite on 12.18.08 at 5:41 pm

Is this the one where he gets blown up on the gas tank?

Great stuff.

#20 sissykat109 on 12.21.08 at 10:51 am

Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a rocket. Stuck his finger up his ass, and found a piece of chocolate!!

#21 phosph01 on 12.23.08 at 5:29 am

I am a serious fan of Cagney and he is missed greatly..One of the true greats in my book and what a performance in the movie ‘One,Two,Three’..Cagney at his best!!

#22 hemming57 on 12.25.08 at 11:19 am

Look up George M Cohan on You-Tube. There is a few clips of him from “The Phantom President” Cohan’ only movie

#23 weikko79 on 12.26.08 at 8:17 pm

Have you heard the real George M. Cohan? If so, where?

#24 Annlindgk on 12.27.08 at 7:23 pm

One of the all-time BEST numbers from any movie musical! I never tire of watching this. James Cagney is magnificent and more than deserved the Oscar he won for this film.

#25 cowboytony55 on 12.31.08 at 4:28 am

This is one of the best scenes ever filmed in musical comedy. Cagney’s body language is superb. Note he is very “street-wise” New York circa 1930’s, not smooth and “New York society/Hollywood” like Astaire and (later) Gene Kelly.

Count the cuts in the “Yankee Doodle” sequence (when Cagney is dancing). I counted four. This means that all the performers had to be on perfect timing, not a second too fast or slow—or everyone in the shot would have to do the seqment from the previous cut.

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