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Posted: 10/18/04 at 12:39am

Amazing (dancing) and acting of course in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.
Don't you just love that film?

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 12:46am

I haven't seen it in years...but, yes!

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

The timeliness of its release, just after the attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941, helped the 'propaganda machine' of going to European battlegrounds overseas with a song that was a rousing theme song written years earlier for WW I - Over There. And a second song, You're a Grand Old Flag, contributed to morale-boosting, flag-waving patriotism and love of one's country. And it was the first time that a living US President (FDR in this case, played by Jack Young) was portrayed in a motion picture.

...FYI -

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 12:48am

Can't help but get a little crush when you watch him sing and dance. What a spirit!

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 12:51am

It was a tour de force performance.

And I love that the movie was shamelessly patriotic...

"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 12:56am

He's one of my favorite all-time actors. As you may know, he started out in vaudeville and always considered himself a song and dance man at heart. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" is great, but I think I like his early gangster pictures even more - "Public Enemy," "Angels with Dirty Faces" and so on.

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 9:47am

Yankee Doodle Dandy is one of my most favorite Cagney films of all time. I think the man is a legend.

"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 1:10pm

My partner is related to James Cagney. If I recall correctly, his grandfather and James Cagney's uncle were brothers.

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 1:20pm

Glebb, as this is one of your threads, I was convinced before I opened it that you were just going to say "...or Lacey?"

Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 2:53pm

Chris-TAYNE!!!

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 6:09pm

Hey Harv!

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 6:11pm

Quotes from Cagney and Lacey?
I've never seen one episode.

" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."

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Posted: 10/18/04 at 9:37pm

I loved him in Mister Roberts:

(over the loudspeaker after Pulver has thrown his beloved palm tree overboard)

"WHOOOOOO DID IT? NO ONE'S GOING TO REST UNTIL I FIND OUT WHOOOOOOO DID IT!"

And in Ragtime as the police commisioner, when they drag fireman Willie Conklin before him:

"People tell me you're a worthless piece of scum!"

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