10/10
Jimmy the Great.
20 January 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Jimmy was great. At everything. Great as Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream. Great when portraying George Michael Cohan.

Jimmy was a Master Tap Dancer. He also was a great boxer. He was raised in a tough neighborhood, and, boy, you had better be quick on your feet in dem dere old days. He was born in 1899.

Jimmy is famous for gangsta movies, but I like him best in his dancing movies. Did he sing? I notice some talk-singing in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Of course, I idolize his fantastic tap dancing in that film.

This was a nice retrospective. The description by Mae Clarke of the famous grapefruit scene was very nice.

Jimmy was a natural at portraying George M. Cohan. Jimmy wanted to show his viewing public just what kind of great American he was, so he and his brother decided to have Jimmy star in this famous film about Georgie-You-Know-Who.

Yankee Doodle Dandy was a great vehicle in showing America what we were fighting for, in the war that was occurring in the same years that this movie was new.

I also have also enjoyed seeing Jimmy dance with Ruby Keeler in Footlight Parade. He played somewhat of a producer and promoter in that film.

15/10.
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