He was born just a few blocks from where I grew up -- Jimmy Cagney, the American film legend who played George M. Cohan, the man who owned Broadway. Cohan wrote the American anthems “Yankee Doodle Boy ...

George M. Cohan, the son of Irish immigrants — often described as the man who owned Broadway — dominated American theater from 1901 until 1940. During those four decades, the man born on the Fourth of ...

Pop quiz: Which of the following songs are familiar to you? "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Give My Regards to Broadway," "It's a Grand Old Flag," "Over There." For extra credit, how many of these songs ...

David Armstrong's new take on the life of George M. Cohan, "Yankee Doodle Dandy!," was a half-dozen years in the making, so the debut of this ultra-patriotic musical during wartime is nothing more ...

One thing you can say about most biographies is that the first part is absorbing and the rest is ho-hum. How a distinguished person became a distinguished person is interesting. Not so interesting is ...