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Cagney Cavalcade: Yankee Doodle Dandy

BBC One
on BBC One London

A season of films featuring one of the screen's great stars and finest actors James Cagney
with Joan Leslie, Walter Huston

Cagney's Oscar-winning performance of 1942, in which he temporarily forsook gangsterism to play a song-and-dance role in this biography of the famous American entertainer George M. Cohan.
See page 42

Contributors

Screenplay:
Robert Buckner
Screenplay:
Edmund Joseph
Director:
Michael Curtiz
George M. Cohan:
James Cagney
Mary:
Joan Leslie
Jerry Cohan:
Walter Huston
Sam Harris:
Richard Whorf
Josie Cohan:
Jeanne Cagney
Singer:
Frances Langford
Dietz:
George Tobias
Fay Templeton:
Irene Manning
Source: Radio Times

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