Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than six months after the United States officially entered World War II, actor James Cagney's most acclaimed film — and ...

George M. Cohan, the son of Irish immigrants – often described as the man who owned Broadway – dominated American theater from 1901 until 1940. During that four-decade period, the man born on the ...

George M. Cohan, the son of Irish immigrants – often described as the man who owned Broadway – dominated American theater from 1901 until 1940. During that four-decade period, the man born on the ...

Seventy-five years ago this Memorial Day—May 29, 1942—the classic thrice-Oscar-winning film "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942) premiered in New York City to great fanfare. And, what a different time it was.

"Yankee Doodle Dandy" is rah-rah, rousingly American and great box office, no matter how you slice it. It's a tribute to a grand American gentleman of the theatre - George M. Cohan - whose life and ...

George M. Cohan, the son of Irish immigrants — often described as the man who owned Broadway — dominated American theater from 1901 until 1940. During that four-decade period, the man born on the ...

He was born just a few blocks from where I grew up -- Jimmy Cagney, the American film legend who played George M. Cohan, the man who owned Broadway. Cohan wrote the American anthems “Yankee Doodle Boy ...

One thing you can say about most biographies is that the first part is absorbing and the rest is ho-hum. How a distinguished person became a distinguished person is interesting. Not so interesting is ...

"Yankee Doodle Dandy" (5:30 p.m. Sunday, July 4, Turner Classic Movies): There's no shortage of patriotic movies scheduled for today. But it's hard to beat this 1942 red-white-and-blue biography of ...

David Armstrong's new take on the life of George M. Cohan, "Yankee Doodle Dandy!," was a half-dozen years in the making, so the debut of this ultra-patriotic musical during wartime is nothing more ...