Review of Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) by Mark Chalon Smith for Los Angeles Times — 24 Feb 1946
If you can push past the flag-waving, this Warner Brothers effort from 1942 is a superior entry in a dubious genre, the musical biography. Michael Curtiz's direction is supple and intelligent, but what makes the movie is James Cagney's manic blur of a performance.
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This review of Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) was written by Mark Chalon Smith and published by Los Angeles Times on 24 Feb 1946.
Yankee Doodle Dandy has generally received very positive reviews.
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