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The next movie mogul to show an interest in the project was Samuel Goldwyn, who had a commitment to make a film starring Fred Astaire. Mayer refused to allow Cohan the right to final cut on the proposed film. The deal collapsed after studio head Louis B. Covering the years when Cohan had toured with his father, mother and sister, the movie would have starred Mickey Rooney as the young Cohan. Although he now seems the only logical choice, Cagney would have missed out on his big chance if a deal between Cohan and MGM to make a film to be called The Four Cohans hadn't fizzled out. Cohan, also rates as the favorite film of its star, James Cagney. Yankee Doodle Dandy, the musical biography of patriotic song-and-dance man George M. He also directed such other musical stars as Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Rosemary Clooney and Elvis Presley. Curtiz made a star of Doris Day in her first film, Romance on the High Seas (1948), and directed her in three more of her early movies: My Dream Is Yours (1949), Young Man With a Horn (1950) and I'll See You in My Dreams (1951).
Michael Curtiz, notorious for his mangling of the English language, once referred to Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) as "the pinochle of my career." Although one does not usually associate the Budapest-born director of Casablanca (1942) and other classics with musicals, he made a total of 13 musicals and musical biographies, beginning with the Al Jolson vehicle Mammy (1930). The president has listened quietly to George's story and now presents him with the Congressional Medal of Honor for his songs "Over There" and "It's a Grand Old Flag." George is the first actor to receive this honor, and he responds as he used to when he was with The Four Cohans, "My mother thanks you my father thanks you my sister thanks you and I thank you." When George leaves the White House, a parade of soldiers and a band march by singing "Over There," and George proudly joins them. After a group of teenagers see George reading Variety and think that the headline "Stix Nix Hix Pix" is a form of jive talk, George realizes how much he still wants to be performing and gladly accepts Sam's offer to star in I'd Rather be Right. George pretends to enjoy his life, but he hates being out of the limelight. They travel to Europe and Asia, and end up on the Cohan farm. Feeling his age, George dissolves his partnership with Sam so that he and Mary can take a much-needed rest. Josie and Nellie die and then George's father Jerry dies. Unable to fight, George writes the inspirational song "Over There." After World War I, Cohan writes more shows. enters the war, George tries to enlist, but at thirty-nine, is too old to be a soldier. It fails miserably, but news of its failure is wiped out of the papers by the sinking of the Lusitania by the Germans in 1915. It is the end of The Four Cohans and George takes this opportunity to write Popularity, a serious play. In the meantime, George proposes to Mary, Josie becomes engaged, and the older Cohans buy a farm and retire. Sam and George become partners and produce a number of plays that feature George's popular formula of success stories laced with patriotism. Harris talking with Schwab, a potential backer, and offers him his new musical, Little Johnny Jones. When he learns that The Four Cohans are losing work because of his reputation for imperious behavior, he pretends that his play has been sold so that the others will accept a booking without him. The Cohans and Mary, who soon learns George's real age, go to New York, where George tries to sell the songs he has written.
Several years later, George, now a young man, meets aspiring singer Mary when he is playing the part of an old man and she comes backstage to ask his sage advice about breaking into show business. At thirteen, George, the star of the play, is a success, but his self-importance is responsible for losing the Cohans several bookings. A short time later, his sister Josie is born and soon the family is touring the country as "The Four Cohans." The family gets a big break when they are hired to star in Peck's Bad Boy. In response to the president's questions, George tells him the story of his life: George was born on the Fourth of July, 1878 to Jerry and Nellie Cohan, a pair of vaudeville actors.
Kaufman and Moss Hart, when he is summoned to meet the president at the White House. Roosevelt in the musical show I'd Rather Be Right, by George S. Cohan is impersonating President Franklin D.
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