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Stage Name |
Birth Name |
| Four
Cohans |
George
Michael Cohan |
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-American actor, author and producer on the Stage. Started his
carrier in his family vaudeville shows at the age of nine, which
included his sister Josephine, and would be named "the Four
Cohans." He was so talented as a child that by the young
age of 15 began writing sketches and even songs for his families
act as well as a few other performers acts. As time went on he
would join forces with Sam Harris in 1904 managing and producing
acts and entire musicals for the Stage and screen, this partnership
lasted till 1920. He acted in and wrote in many of the Broadway
Stage scores and librettos done in his day.
-George Cohan is mainly remembered
for the many songs he composed such as "Yankee Doodle Dandy,"
"You're a Grand Old Flag," "Give My Regards to
Broadway," and "Over There" which became a national
battle hymn for WW1.
-Joined ASCAP in 1914 as a charter
member and received the Congressional Medal for his lifetime achievements
in 1937. Cohan died of Cancer in New York in 1942.
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Birth Place |
Birth Date |
Spouse |
Offspring |
| Providence,
Rhode Island |
7/3/1878-11/5/1942 |
Ethel
Levey |
3
Children |
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Agnes
Mary Nolan (1907-42) |
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Dance Types |
Dance Partners |
Music Titles |
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Forty-five
Minutes from Broadway |
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George M! (1968 Musical Sndtrk) |
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Give My Regards to Broadway |
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Harrigan |
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I
Guess I'll Have to Telegraph My Baby |
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I
Was Born in Virginia |
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Life's
a Funny Proposition After All |
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Mary's
a Grand Old Name |
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Molly
Malone |
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My
Musical Comedy Maid |
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Nellie
Kelly |
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$
Over There |
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Revolutionary
Rag |
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So
Long, Mary |
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Venus,
My Shining Love |
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Yankee
Doodle Boy |
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Yankee Doodle Dandy ( Medley) |
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You
Remind Me of My Mother |
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You're a Grand Old Flag |
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Films |
Television |
Stage |
| 1910
- Actors' Fund Field Day (acted) |
1972
- George M. |
1904
- Little Johnny Jones |
| 1917
- Broadway Jones (acted) |
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1916
- Officer 666 |
| 1917
- Seven Keys to Baldpate (acted) |
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1916+18
- Cohan Revue |
| 1918
- Hit-the-Trail Holiday (acted) |
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1935
- Ah, Wilderness! |
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$1929
- Broadway Melody (song) |
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1935
- O'Neill's (wrote) |
| 1929
- Little Johnny Jones (song) |
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A
Prince There Was (acted) |
| 1932
- Phantom President, The |
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American
Born (acted) |
| 1934
- Gambling |
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American
Idea, the |
| 1934
- Paris Interlude (song) |
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Broadway
Jones (acted) |
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$1938
- Shopworn Angel (song) |
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Dear
Old Darling (acted) |
| 1938
- Yank at Oxford, A (song) |
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Elmer
the Great (directed) |
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$1939
- Babes in Arms (song) |
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Fifty
Miles from Boston |
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$1940
- Little Nellie Kelly (song) |
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Forty-five
Minutes from Broadway |
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$1940
- Tin Pan Alley (song) |
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Gambling
(acted) |
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$1942
- Yankee Doodle Dandy ( DVD) |
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George
Washington, Jr. |
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Get-Rich-Quick
Wallingford |
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Governor's
Son, the |
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Hello,
Broadway |
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Hit-the-Trail
Holiday |
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Honeymooners,
the |
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I'd
Rather Be Right (produced) |
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Little Millionaire, the |
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Little
Nelly Kelly |
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Man
Who Owns Broadway, the |
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Merry
Malones, the |
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Miracle
Man, the |
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O'Brien
Girl (produced) |
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Return
of the Vagabond |
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Rise
of Rosie O'Reilly, the |
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Royal
Vagabond, the |
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Seven
Keys to Baldpate |
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Song-And-Dance
Man (acted) |
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Talk
of New York, the |
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Tavern
(directed) |
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Yankee
Prince, the |
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