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This James Cagney scene is at the end of Yankee Doodle Dandy, a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as “The Man Who Owned Broadway”. I was so impressed with this routine, I tried to do it when I was at school with obviously absolutely no success!
Unbelievable perfection in dance, timing and golf swing technique. In the next clip, Fred Astaire describes how the cameraman complained about the trajectory of his shots being too high and how he had to amend them.
This was the first film I recorded on our new VHS recorder and so because of the novelty of being able to rewind and review, learnt the whole film by heart. Fantastic thought-provoking script, characters and unravelling story.
The Marx brothers were so ahead of their time. ‘A Night at the Opera’ my particular favourite. Love the Groucho Marx quote, ‘I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member’!
My parents’ generation regarded Spencer Tracey as the greatest ever actor. ‘Boys Town’, ‘All about Eve’, ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.’ This speech still relevant today – perhaps more so! …. “because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding.”
The Tony Curtis quote, ‘Kissing Marilyn was like kissing Hitler,’ is actually untrue. No-one else came close to MM when I was a teenager.
A Monkey in Manhattan 