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Apr 26, 2012 · James Cagney shows us how to dance down stairs. From near the end of Yankee Doodle Dandy, George M. Cohan (James Cagney) is leaving the White House. And without spoiling the plot of...
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Jan 4, 2010 · Second, Mr. Cagney improvised "ad-libbed" the whole tap dancing down the stairs. The script called for him to simply, walk down the steps. One of the Greatest Scenes in Film. "Yankee Doodle...
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Jimmy Cagney performs his signature number in this 1942 biographical film about George M. Cohan.
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Nov 16, 2019 · Cagney’s Cohan is walking down a marble staircase at the White House when he suddenly starts tapping and improvises all the way to the bottom. Cagney later said he dreamed that up five minutes before the scene was shot: “I didn’t consult with the director or anything, I just did it.”.
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway". It stars James Cagney , Joan Leslie , Walter Huston , and Richard Whorf , and features Irene Manning , George Tobias , Rosemary DeCamp , Jeanne Cagney , and Vera Lewis .
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Yankee Doodle Dandy, American biopic film, released in 1942, that focused on the life of vaudevillian, composer, and Broadway luminary George M. Cohan and featured an Academy Award-winning performance by James Cagney. This remarkable life story, though somewhat distorted and sanitized in this.
