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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
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Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) [2-Disc Special Edition]
DVD9 + DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | 02:30:57 | 8,08 Gb + 4,45 Gb
Audio: English AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps + Commentary track | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical | Won 3 Oscars | USA

A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life- story of George M. Cohan, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous songs.

Added to the National Film Registry in 1993. #100 on AFI's 100 Greatest Movies list. "The Yankee Doodle Boy" is #71 on AFI's 100 Top Movie Songs of All Time, but the film's Score also includes "Give My Regards to Broadway", "Over There", and "You're a Grand Old Flag" making it required viewing and an outstanding Fourth of July film! Cagney's oft repeated line "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." is #97 on AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes list. #88 on AFI's 100 Most Inspiring Movies list. #18 on AFI's 25 Greatest Movie Musicals list.

IMDB

Yankee Doodle Dandy was one of the best World War II-era patriotic propaganda films, and it has proven itself enduringly popular in the decades following its release. The film succeeds almost entirely on the performance of James Cagney as legendary song-and-dance performer George M. Cohan, although significant credit should also be given to director Michael Curtiz, who expertly stages each scene to display the talents of his star. The film features an over-the-top framing device in which Cohan tells his life's story in flashback to President Franklin Roosevelt. The story is effectively fiction, using only the outline of Cohan's life and some of his songs as reference points. The musical sequences are among the best in any film of the era. The film was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won three, including Best Actor for Cagney. The real-life Cohan died shortly after the film's release, living long enough to see it and like it despite, or perhaps because of, its lack of accuracy about his life.
Richard Gilliam, Rovi
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

James Cagney ("White Heat," "Angels With Dirty Faces") danced and sang his way to a well-deserved Academy Award for his outstanding portrayal of vaudeville composer and performer George M. Cohan in this Oscar-nominated biography. Recently selected as one of the top American films of all time by the prestigious American Film Institute and directed by Academy Award-winner Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca"), this joyous musical tribute to one of America's most popular entertainers was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, and Writing and won for Best Score and Best Sound. Oscar-winner Walter Huston ("The Treasure of the Sierra Madre") received his third Oscar-nomination as Cohan's show business father. Contains some of Cohan's finest songs, including, "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Over There," and "Give My Regards to Broadway". A "must-see" American classic, Leonard Maltin award.
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

It may be as corny as the Uncle Sam on stilts leading a Flag Day parade, but Yankee Doodle Dandy stars the irresistibly watchable James Cagney in a high-flying hagiography of actor-hoofer-songwriter-playwright George M. Cohan, the man best known today for composing standards such as "Give My Regards to Broadway," "Over There," "Grand Ol' Flag," and "Yankee Doodle Dandy." This musical biopic's apple pie Americana is to Independence Day what It's a Wonderful Life is to Christmas. Directed by Warner's versatile workhorse Michael Curtiz, Yankee Doodle Dandy is as much a part of America-at-war 1942 as Curtiz's Casablanca, which premiered the same year. Like that Bogart classic, it represents the best of its breed, in this case the rags-to-riches, feel-good story of success achieved through equal parts determination, talent, and good ol' American pluck.

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Cagney reached back to his Broadway roots to play song-and-dance man Cohan, the vaudevillian child star who grew into the brassy toast of the Great White Way. Favorite scenes include Cohan and his future wife Mary (Joan Leslie) meeting cute, the death-bed moment with his father (Walter Huston), and Cohan taking Broadway by storm. Hollywood never let facts get in the way of a good story (e.g., Cohan had two wives, neither named Mary), and this is Hollywood at its revisionist best. Yes, the material is hackneyed, and even its structure — "I was a pretty cocky kid in those days, a pretty cocky kid" cue flashback — might elicit a stifled chuckle. But you can't take your eyes off that powerhouse Cagney for a second. Because Curtiz allowed him to improvise while the cameras rolled, Cagney proved that he was more than the hard-bitten gangsters that had made him a top screen tough guy in hits such as The Public Enemy and Angels With Dirty Faces. At only 5'-6" he was a nimble and agile dynamo. When his Cohan performs the title song on Broadway we get one of the great Hollywood musical numbers. During the scene in which Cohan says goodbye to his dying father, Cagney's performance so moved the typically imperturbable Curtiz that the director began bawling and ruined a take.

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Production began the day after Pearl Harbor, which the cast heard about huddled around the studio radio. When the movie premiered on Memorial Day 1942, the war was not going well for U.S. forces, so the upbeat story and musical numbers were the Fourth of July sparklers that World War II audiences needed. Yankee Doodle Dandy became Warner Brothers' top-grossing movie of the year and its top-grosser to that time. Its eight Academy Award nominations included Best Picture, Director, and Writing. It won three, including a Best Actor statue for Cagney, who regarded it as his favorite film. The Budapest-born, English-challenged Curtiz described it as "the pinochle of my career."

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Quaint and nostalgic, Yankee Doodle Dandy points to that "more innocent time" we keep hearing about. It delivers its red-white-and-blue patriotism to you by the exuberant bushel, but this grand old film reminds us that there was a time when patriotism was more heartfelt than bullying and jingoistic.
Mark Bourne, DVD Journal
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Extras:
Disc one alone might be labeled a special edition by some studios, it contains so much material. First, there's the standard screen presentation of the movie itself, with its Dolby Digital monaural soundtrack. Next, there's a full-feature audio commentary with film historian Rudy Behlmer. After that is a Warner Night at the Movies, introduced by Leonard Maltin, that includes a "Casablanca" theatrical trailer; a patriotic short subject, "Beyond the Line of Duty"; and a Merrie Melodies cartoon, "Bugs Bunny Get the Boid." Finally, there are a generous thirty-eight scene selections and a James Cagney trailer gallery with trailers for seven of the actor's most-famous films. English is the only spoken language provided, but there are subtitles in English, French, and Spanish.

Disc two, as expected, is where the real background material lies. Here, you'll find first a forty-six minute documentary, "James Cagney: Top of the World," made in 1992 and hosted by Michael J. Fox. Then, you'll find a new, forty-four minute, making-of documentary, "Let Freedom Sing! The Story of Yankee Doodle Dandy." Both documentaries feature interviews with practically everyone who ever knew or worked with the actor. Next, you get a five-minute reminiscence, "John Travolta Remembers James Cagney," who explains to us how he has always tried to emulate Cagney as an actor and entertainer. This is followed by a 1943 inspirational wartime short film starring Cagney, "You, John Jones," directed by Mervyn LeRoy. After that is a 1942 "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater radio production of "Yankee Doodle Dandy," with most of the movie's cast recreating their famous roles, plus a selection of audio-only outtakes and rehearsals for the movie. Lastly, there are two classic WB cartoons, "Yankee Doodle Bugs" and "Yankee Doodle Daffy"; and a whole series of galleries for dressed-set photos, scene concept drawings, publicity materials, and sheet music.
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