Less than six months after the United States officially entered World War II, actor James Cagney's most acclaimed film — and you'll see why in the following Yankee Doodle Dandy facts — arrived in ...

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

Washington probably did stand while crossing Delaware, but not in a rowboat. Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware during a Press Preview for the Metropolitan Museum ...

This coming Friday will mark the 249th birthday of our nation, and as has been the theme for so many years past, it will be filled with many celebrations, marked by parades, patriotic music, and ...

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY is a movie anyone can see and enjoy. No sex, violence or profanity – just lively entertainment. It is good enough to watch on any day, not just the Fourth of July. As YANKEE DOODLE ...

Musical Theatre West Footlighters held its “Music in the Morning” luncheon with a Yankee Doodle Dandy/4th of July décor. The flowers and flags centerpieces made an energetic and fun first impression ...

With our nation increasingly divided, several media gurus over the July 4 break decreed that Hollywood owed filmgoers a “feel-good-about-America” movie. Something unifying and patriotic, like a ...

Where would we be on the Fourth of July without all of that glorious, glorious music? I’ve always thought that, without all those rousing patriotic songs and marches, the flags would lose their snap ...

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 ...

"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 ...