Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy (film)
Theatrical release poster by Bill Gold
Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Written by	Robert Buckner Edmund Joseph
Produced by	Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner
Starring	James Cagney Joan Leslie Walter Huston Richard Whorf
Cinematography	James Wong Howe
Edited by	George Amy
Music by	Score and songs George M. Cohan Score adaptation: Ray Heindorf Heinz Roemheld
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	May 29, 1942 (1942-05-29) (New York City)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.5 million[1]
Box office	$6.5 million[1]

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway".^[2] It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf, and features Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp, Jeanne Cagney, and Vera Lewis. Joan Leslie's singing voice was partially dubbed by Sally Sweetland.

The film was written by Robert Buckner and Edmund Joseph, and directed by Michael Curtiz. According to the special edition DVD, significant and uncredited improvements were made to the script by the twin brothers Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein. The film was a major hit for Warner Brothers, and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning three.

In 1993, Yankee Doodle Dandy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", and in 1998, the film was included on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Movies list, a compilation of the 100 greatest films in American cinema.