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From near the end of Yankee Doodle Dandy, George M. Cohan (James Cagney) is leaving the White House. And without spoiling the plot of the film, he's pretty happy about things. AND this was an improvisation by Cagney. Fantastic stuff from "The greatest hoofer of them all" - Fred Astaire
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In Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), James Cagney improvised his tap dance down the White House staircase.
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