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kee Doodle Dandy Academy Award Winner Film


You must have heard a kindergartener singing the Yankee Doodle lines sometime. These lines belong to the 1942 classic movie Yankee Doodle Dandy. This movie is an account of George M. Cohans life. The movie scriptwriters are Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph. Michael Curtis has directed this much acclaimed film with a sense of patriotism.

Yankee Doodle Dandy won the Academy Award for Best Music Scoring of a Musical Picture. It also won the Academy Best Sound Recording Award. James Cagney won the Best Actor in a Leading Role Award from the Academy. Walter Houston was nominated the Best Actor in a Supporting Role, George Amy for Best Film Editing and Michael Cruz for Best director, by the Academy.

Yankee Doodle Dandy was also nominated for the Best Picture. The Scriptwriters of the movie were nominated for Best Writers, Original Story award by the Academy. This movie was acclaimed as one of cultural, historical and aesthetic significance by the Library of Congress in 1993, and hence kept preciously in the National Film Registry by them.

The 100 Years…100 movies rankings of the AFI placed Yankee Doodle Dandy in the 100th position in 1998.Again in 2005, The 100 Years …100 Movie Quotes of AFI have positioned James Cagneys very famous lines My Mother thanks You, My Father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you in the 97th position on its list. The movie again appeared on the 100 years of Musicals list of AFI in the 18th position.

The cast of Yankee Doodle Dandy consists of James Cagney in the lead role of George M. Cohan, Joan Leslie as Mary Cohan, Walter Huston as Jerry Cohan, Richard Whorf as Sam Harris and many stalwart actors.

Julieus J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein made modifications to the original script to suit the requirements of the Yankee Doodle Dandy movie. The song Yankee Doodle Boy is a characteristic song of Cohan. Though it is widely taught to kindergarten children the song is of great patriotic and societal significance. It is based on the song Yankee Doodle of the war revolution times.

The other Cohan songs that were featured in Yankee Doodle Dandy include Give My Regards to Broadway, Harrigan, Marys Grand Old Name, Youre a Grand Old Flag and Over There. James Cagney turned out to be an apt choice for the role of Cohan, because he adopted the dance and song style of Cohan in a very natural manner.
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Kee Doodle Dandy Academy Award Winner Film was written on December 30, 2007. Posted in Music, Movies & TV and Tagged Music, Movies & TV.












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