absolutely correct, no modern movies come close

None- they try, but the magic just isn't there anymore, perhaps the innocence is gone, we're 'too knowing, too cynical' to just enjoy spectacles like this anymore- makes me deeply sad.

This was It! When Hollywood was Patriotic.

As a kid this was and still is one of my all-time favorites ....HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA

Definitely. Wow! James cagney, was, is an amazing actor 👏.

❤

And we have a president that can’t even walk up the stairs.

That's the best part of the movie.

That was not part of the movie. Cagney made it up on the spot.

Yep. The whole movie was great, but that moment put the lump in my throat.

Exactly... everytime

Damn he could dance

He said the director couldn't believe he did that. "Are you nuts?", He asked him. "You could have fallen and broken your neck!" To which Cagney replied, "Not a chance, It's in my contract, I don't do stunt work."

@@albundy6008 He learned it in Vaudville as part of an act then. "Everything I know I learned in Vaudebille" -Cagney.

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He was a brilliant man..we need one like him right now.

Because it epitomized what the movie was about. The human spirit of hard work, perseverance, exuberance, freedom of expression, of pure joy and happiness of just being alive, entertaining others and making them feel good about themselves and their country. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-" To use the talents that God has given you to make life both better for yourself and for others. That is what that little dance down the stairs symbolises. It's what made the subject of the movie - George Cohen played by the immortal James Cagney, worthy of your country's deep and abiding respect. It was a symbol of what it once meant to be an American. You should certainly cherish that spirit, remember it well...celebrate it and keep it alive so that others can follow in the footsteps of the likes of your Cohen's and Cagney 's and help to Make America Great Again.

@JadeZee He did! I knew the gentleman who played the guitar for this, the late Alton (Al) Hendrickson and he said Cagney did improvise this scene. Cagney was one of the greatest tap dancers ever!, and Alton Hendrickson was the greatest guitar player ever!

william wright: I, too, cry @ movies, just None out of Hollywood 4 sev-eral decades... rarely. Garbage nowadays. Clint Eastwood is 'on' 2 something: mak-ing movies w/ real people that don't have an Agenda of hating America.

I like the gangster movies with Cagney more.

@@mucro849 True he was a great ganster actor. Mesa, AZ 11/3/2023

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where are all the other Men..that served in that War?.. black..asian..mexican...yes, i cry too now, at the Finale..but for a different reason....

One of my most favorite actors!

Mine too!

@@jeaninefrank8019 You cry because the National Socialists got their butts kicked. BTW, the blacks, Asians and Mexicans don't need some whitebread snowflake to speak for them.

@@oldschool1993 Agreed, people would call this ‘racist, homophobic, sexist’ and whole lotta shit now. But me and you? We think this is a masterpiece of the American Spirit. Don’t care what you say, this is a masterpiece. And the snowflake thing? True. Just watch EMMA, Compare that and this then tell me what you think, pal.

The Seven Little Foys!

And Cagney appeared as Cohan again in "The Seven Little Foys" (1955), as a favor to Bob Hope. He refused to accept any salary for his appearance because the real Eddie Foy was a mentor to him when he first entered show business {even gave him a place to sleep when he couldn't afford a cheap hotel or boarding house to stay in}.

He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as GMC in Yankee Doodle Dandy. And well deserved it was!

The movies today will never compare to the old Hollywood movies NEVER

I would love to see ANY actor today perform that. Not some dancer turned actor. Cagney paid his dues before he was recognized for his greatness.

@@lbcharlie05 James Cagney was dancing long before he got into acting because he is from a long line of entertainers who learned their craft doing vaudeville until making movies came along!

I had no idea, the dance was ad- libbed🤭. Cagney, was a genius, only wanted to be a ‘song and dance’ man apparently. I read somewhere, he wanted the roll so much, he offered to do it without a fee❤️ don’t know if there’s any truth to it. Much loved, and greatly missed😢

Because Jimmy Cagney did that, they put that tune in that scene.

Finest actor there ever was.☺

"Jimmy Cagney did a SUPERB version of Cohan!!!!, he put his heart into this movie for sure, Cagney was not only a great dance man and actor, but a very strong Patriot, and he put his feelings in this movie"!!!! 😉🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Yeah, that would be about right.

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Garret Ross: Thank you so very much 4 the history, thanks 2 the up-loader: may GOD Bless you both!!!

Cagney was a young man when this was made, and at the height of his physical condition. Certainly one of the finest all-round entertainers of all time.

They finished the cut, and Cohan's family sent their lawyer out to see it. He was a typical, cynical New Yorker type; seen it all, knows it all, bored with it all. He had been the Cohan lawyer for a long time. They were in the screening room, and the lawyer was sitting back in a big lounge chair. Jack Warner was seated close enough that he could touch the chair. As they got to the last scenes Warner realized that the lounge chair was shaking a little. And then he realized that the lawyer was crying.

For sure! At first I literally thought they got the President to be in the movie!

That step he does down the stairs is called a "buck and wing."

It's on today, Feb. 10, 2019 on Turner Classic Movies at 1:15 pm. I can't wait!!😎

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Hell yes... Forever... I adore him

I'd like to give you a 1,000 thumbs up but they'll only let me give you 1.

@Wagner PD Better than being a republitard

@@geewhizz1970 Nope, the traitorous republican party has led us closer and closer to totalitarianism by letting the corrupt, criminal trump get away with whatever he wants. The original post here was made when President Obama was in office, not the sexual assaulter trump, who recently wished ghislaine maxwell well.

@@michaelcharlesmiller Time will tell who the real traitors are in this country, the book-burning lemmings of the MSM and their technocrats, and their Marxist/Leninist bots.

Today Hollywood is too infested.

"Air Force One" with Harrison Ford "The Patriot" with Mel Gibson "Band of Brothers" by Warner Brothers I'm not going too bother listing any more. Google: american patriot movies

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Me, too, only on whatever station it was in NYC.

Million Dollar Movie WOR Channel 9

That's amazing

Before someone becomes offended and has it removed, like Kate Smith's!

Angela Roquemore That makes it so much more powerful for the audience - it is like we are in on an inside joke. We’d all love to tell that soldier and watch his look of amazement! What a great movie ending’

Ha!Ha!

That soldier later was on a tv show in the 60s. He was the father of Donnie Gills

He was an Irish American. That is what they did

Cagney did that on his own. It wasn't in the script, he said he was so moved by the scene he just had to throw that in.

sweettrt: I pray your daughter Doesn't attend a large public school like we gotz in Brazzaville Texis!

Me too

love him ricky, so you could dance so young & u were an entrapauner making$$$$ at an early age using his steps ,cool dude.u still dance

Not as much as I would like.

Ricky Reynolds do your or your wife have a video clip of u playing gutar when u were younger?? or to this day?? if so would u guys email it to me?? does your wife play guitar also?? if she did i would love to see the 2 of you doing a duet together?? but if u have one of u playing to i'd like to see it i love the guitar that is whyy i asked if your wife played, for i figured you would've taught her if she didn't already know how. all i can do is a little keys but have always wanted to pick it back up i love the keyboard, nothing like seeing Michael Mcdonald standing at them playing with such ease. do either of you play keys??

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Ricky Reynolds: I can dance Better than Cagney, probly You, too... but then I awake.

Stay proud of your Irish forefathers. There was a time in Boston and New York and other Northeast cities the Irish were villianized. There were signs in shop windows , NINA.(no Irish need apply) They had their own schools, and becauae mist werw Catholic, their own churches. Talk about segregation. Thank heavens those days are behind us. Remember..JFK was an Irish American!!🇺🇸🇺🇸

I have watched this movie every year for over 65 years. I saw the play "Cagney" on Broadway, and think he was the greatest actor of all time. I also loved him in "Strawberry Blond", West Point Story, City For Conquest and Mr. Roberts! His acting range was incredible! His gangsters and criminals were scary! RIP James Cagney! From an Italian immigrant family.

@@maryleone2023 Wow. You've got me beat. I'm somewhere in the 40 year range.

@@johnjones5354 Then you probably don't remember the commercial:" You don't have to be Jewish to Love Levy's." (rye bread)? Just like you don't have to be Irish to love James Cagney or Yankee Doodle Dandy! That was the point I was trying to convey to Craig Clarke.

unless u was a minority

DOnnelle Barfield There will always be a minority. The way the system is, there can be no other way. Besides, the term "minority" is an incorrect term, since there is a "minority" of rich people, motivated people, insightful people, entrepreneurs, politicians and so on. We are all minorities. We falsely place our worth on money- the system wants you to do so to keep you depressed so they may control you. You can be poor of money yet rich in spirit and only one of these lasts forever. Jesus was dead broke, Caesar was money rich- who was the better man? Who actually had the power? But I do understand what you mean.

NO EXCUSES--THE ONLY OBSTACLE YOU HAVE IS **YOU**!! Google "List of African American Scientists and Inventors". (Includes both male & female, and the list goes on, and on, and on.) When you've finished that, then Google "African American Women in Medicine", followed by "African American Women in Computer Science". That ought to last you for the 1st couple of hours, at least. *THEN*, Google "Warren Washington receives National Science Medal, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2010". Need I go on? The list is endless...

newstart49 I'm just tired of our pussies in society and our loss of American culture

Yes, we were free to speak our minds and believe in America's greatness. Now, we have thought-control police who claim to believe in freedom, but only as long as they control the message.

Tyler..just watched these last scenes again ( 2/3/2019) and like many it brought tears. I'd like to buy it..guess I need to go online!

They kind of had to be.

Matthew Bulger Oh I agree.. I watch it every year thanks goodness for Turner Classics and now a DVR one can tape it.. certain parts just tug at one.. these last two scenes especially.. :)

Yes, but the James Montgomery Flagg- 'I want you" poster was still around and it was on the recruiting booth in Times Square a couple of years ago. It was a self-portrait of Flagg, by the way. Recall Rockwell's "freedom of speech" poster? The guy speaking has a zipper on his shirt and buttons on his jacket.