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YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (Michael Curtiz, 1942, 35mm, 126 mins)Song-and-dance man George M. Cohan (played by a tap-dancing James Cagney) recounts his life from vaudeville to Broadway, culminating in FDR presenting him with the Congressional Gold Medal. This exuberant musical biopic blends patriotic pageantry, Warner Bros. dynamism, and mid-century optimism. Cagney won his only Academy Award for his electric, kinetic performance in Curtiz’s celebration of American resilience. Introduction by Joshua Cochran. 35mm print from the Harvard Film Archive.
“American Tunes” features films that investigate the meaning of America through song, and is co-presented by the Yale Film Archive and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
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Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT, United States
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