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YANKEE DOODLE DANDY
July 4, 2020  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 5:30 p.m. ET

 
As WWII was erupting all around him, director Michel Curtiz made two back-to-back movies in 1942 that were unabashedly patriotic, and which are revered to this day, in no small part because of the iconic performances by their leading men. In this movie musical biography, James Cagney plays George M. Cohan, and struts energetically through such songs as the title number. Then, later that same year, Curtiz cast Humphrey Bogart in a little wartime drama called Casablanca.
 
 
 
 
 
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