Episode #003
Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942)
Music is in the air! Vaudeville! Romance! Franklin Delano Roosevelt! It’s the 1942 classic Yankee Doodle Dandy this time around, a movie neither Josh nor Ira had ever even HEARD of…so what put this movie on the map? Why is it on the list. Listen and find out! 🙂
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Fun Facts: Cohan’s rival, Eddie Foy, was played by his son, Eddie Foy Jr.
Cagney reprised the role 13 years later in a movie about Eddie Foy starring Bob Hope, called _The Seven Little Foys_: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048604/
It’s woth watching, just for the Foy Cohan (Hope/Cagney) dance-off scene.
Will definitely have to check out “The Seven Little Foys” 🤓