around the time when the dad was in his death bed Cohan says something about the mom and sister being "gone" where'd they go?
shareHis sister died of heart failure in 1916, a year before his father died of the same ailment. His mother didn't die until 1928, so the film was playing loose with the facts.
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I am not a troll, I just love to make fun of movies and TV shows... especially ones I am particularly fond of...
"His mother didn't die until 1928, so the film was playing loose with the facts."
That isn't the only creative license the filmmakers took. In real life he was married twice (divorced the first time) and never to anyone named Mary (although Mary was the middle name of his second wife). And the movie portrayed "I'd Rather Be Right" as a Sam Harris production, when in reality it was a Rogers and Hart show. It's not unusual for biographical films to play with the facts a bit.
"And the movie portrayed "I'd Rather Be Right" as a Sam Harris production, when in reality it was a Rogers and Hart show. It's not unusual for biographical films to play with the facts a bit. "
You might want to check your facts there. I'd Rather Be Right was a Sam Harris production and the play was written by George Kaufman and Moss Hart.
Cite: http://members.tripod.com/davecol8/id33.htm
Check out the posters. "Presented by Sam M. Harris... book by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart."
Rogers and Lorenz Hart wrote the songs, but the actual play was written by Kaufman and Moss Hart and the credit went to them.
Yes the film simplified a number of aspects of Cohan's life for storytelling purposes and also to achieve the rights (for example, Cohan did not want his first two wives to be mentioned in the movie and made it a condition that they would not be, or else he would not give Warner's the rights to his life story), but a film produced in 1941/42 would not have gotten something this basic wrong about a very popular play released only four years earlier.
I know it must seem a trivial point, but it's come up several times on this board.. How does one say George was not married to a woman named Mary, and then in the very next breath/clause/sentence say that his second wife's middle name is Mary?
Sorry. It's just annoying to me as I know quite a few people that go by their middle name, but it also just seems like an inane thing to say. While most sources I've seen seem to suggest that wife #2 went by Agnes, she was in the theater company at the time Cohan wrote the song Mary and there were strong implications he was romantically involved with her, though still married to Ethel.
Who knows.. Great vehicle for Cagney (Academy Award) and America (still reeling from Pearl Harbor). Like Tiger, phenomenal at his craft, maybe not a paragon of virtue...
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Josie Cohan married Fred Niblo, who was one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, as well as the director of the original silent version of "Ben Hur."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629243/
She was also the mother of Fred Niblo Jr.:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0629240/
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"in the movie, the mother and sister got eaten by a pack of wild jackals, but this scene wound up on the cutting room floor and (probably) no longer exists."
I thought that was rather funny.
And I love the movie, by the way.
No way this happened! It was this way: mom and sister were standing under a large American flag in one of George's shows, which fell down and caused severe head trauma to them both. Not wishing to interrupt the performance, George acted like it was part of the play.
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