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Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Year |
1942 |
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George M. Cohan:
My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you.
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[George M. Cohan comes into apartment and smells something cooking]
George M. Cohan:
Mmmmm... ham or bacon?
Mary:
Bacon.
George M. Cohan:
Good. Ham makes me self-conscious.
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George M. Cohan:
Thanks, Sam. It'll be great as long as those critics don't start to eat off my leg.
Sam Harris:
Oh, don't worry about the critics! You got a smash hit! It's in the air, kid! It's in the air! You can't stop anything that's in the air!
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[first lines]
Critic #1:
I call it a hit. What'll your review say?
Critic #2:
I like it too, so I guess I'll pan it.
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[a group of soldiers in marching off to fight in World War II, singing Cohan's World War I song, "Over There"]
Sergeant on parade:
What's the matter, old timer? Don't you remember this song?
George M. Cohan:
Seems to me I do.
Sergeant on parade:
Well, I don't hear anything.
[Cohan starts singing along, with tears coming into his eyes]
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George M. Cohan:
It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us.
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