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“Yankee Doodle Dandy” (Movie Reviews-5/30/42)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library
| 5/30/42
| Bosley Crowther, T.S.
Posted on 05/30/2012 4:10:19 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: moviereview; realtime
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
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posted on
05/30/2012 4:12:25 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
Folks who are looking for something propitious to decorate today would do well to try for a seat at the Hollywood Theatre. For there, at the scene of last nights $5,000,000 premiere, 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. So says Bosley Crowther and Homer_J_Simpson agrees.
To explain the first sentence above, May 30 used to be Decoration Day.
Yankee Doodle Dandy original trailer
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posted on
05/30/2012 4:16:45 AM PDT
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
I have never seen this entire movie, but it seems remarkable. In spite of the pro-FDR scenes.
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posted on
05/30/2012 4:26:52 AM PDT
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iowamark
To: Homer_J_Simpson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Cohan
“In 1942, a musical biopic of Cohan, Yankee Doodle Dandy, was released, and James Cagney’s performance in the title role earned the Best Actor Academy Award. The film was privately screened for Cohan as he battled the last stages of abdominal cancer; Cohans comment on Cagneys performance was, “My God, what an act to follow!”[11]
Cohan died of cancer at the age of 64 on November 5, 1942, at his New York City home at 993 Fifth Avenue. After a large funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, on Fifth Avenue, Cohan was interred at the Bronx’s Woodlawn Cemetery, in a private family mausoleum he had erected a quarter century earlier for his sister and parents.”
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posted on
05/30/2012 4:34:30 AM PDT
by
iowamark
To: Homer_J_Simpson
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posted on
05/30/2012 5:13:11 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Love this movie.
Could also due without the FDR worship, but the rest of the film makes it’s easy to look past that part. Just pretend it’s Ronald Reagan behind the desk.
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posted on
05/30/2012 5:27:11 AM PDT
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chrisser
(Starve the Monkeys!)
To: chrisser
due=>do.
Need more coffee...
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posted on
05/30/2012 5:29:37 AM PDT
by
chrisser
(Starve the Monkeys!)
To: Homer_J_Simpson; mickie
"Yankee Doodle Dandy".....on the list of my 6 all-time favorite films.
What an entertainer Cagney was, a real song and dance man....tremendously talented.
Yes, I DO pine for the olden days....sigh.
Leni
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posted on
05/30/2012 4:48:15 PM PDT
by
MinuteGal
(OMG !!!.....Obama Must Go !!!)
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