Screen Test of Time, Ep. 121: Yankee Doodle Dandy

Screen Test of Time is a podcast where Suzan Eraslan and David Daw set out to watch every movie ever nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, in order, from the first awards season to, eventually, the present day. Each week, they watch and review a different movie, and when they've watched everything nominated in a particular year, they tell you whether the Oscar went to the right one! 

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A musical cum biopic starring James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy, recycles some of our hosts’ least favorite old Hollywood clichés as it stumbles in its homage to Broadway historical figure George M. Cohan, but manages to pull out some unexpected and nigh on accidental moments of genuinely good film making.

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Year Eligible: 1942 (Nominated)

Additional audio from Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)