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George M. Cohan

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I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.


— George M. Cohan


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Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.


— George M. Cohan


#buried #call #curtain #funny #hurried

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!


— George M. Cohan


#gentlemen #i #ladies #mother #sister

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.


— George M. Cohan


#bum #flag #many #saved #show






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The stamp depicts both the older Cohan and his younger self as a dancer along with the tag line "Yankee Doodle Dandy. The film was privately screened for Cohan as he battled the last stages of abdominal cancer; Cohan’s comment on Cagney’s performance was "My God what an act to follow!" Cohan's 1920 play The Meanest Man in the World was filmed with Jack Benny in 1943. " On June 29 1936 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented him with the Congressional Gold Medal for his contributions to World War I morale in particular the songs "You're a Grand Old Flag" and "Over There.

Known in the decade before World War I as "the man who owned Broadway" he is considered the father of American musical comedy. Cohan was an American entertainer playwright composer lyricist actor singer dancer and producer.

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