All this time I thought George M Cohan was Jewish!

Am I the only one who thought this? I feel dumb now!

Come to find out while watching this movie he's Irish!! In the movie when the President is talking to George and mentions his Irish background I expected George to correct him and say "oh, but we're not Irish, we're Jewish." When he didn't I thought, "What? I better do some research on this." I guess I got Cohan/Cohen confused because whenever I'd heard people talk about George M Cohan they'd always pronounce his last name like Cohen (CO-wen), not like in the movie where they pronounce it co-HAN. I've never known anyone with the name Cohan, Irish or otherwise. Also, maybe I was confusing him with Irving Berlin, who was a Jewish composer famous for many American classics, not unlike George Cohan. I always thought James Cagney was a weird casting choice to play a Jewish man. No wonder! I was wrong!

I was also floored that Walter Huston played Jerry Cohan. I did not recognize him at all. I wouldn't have known it was him if I hadn't seen the IMDB page for this movie.

Excellent movie all around!!