YOU can keep all your modern dancers.
This week, for the first time in donkeys years, I watched the 1942 biography Yankee Doodle Dandy starring cinema tough guy James "You dirty rat" Cagney as Broadway entertainer, George M Cohan.
It was made well before I was born, but what a pair of feet the man had. He was a brilliant hoofer with a body like elastic. I've never seen a song and dance man like him dancing up the wall and down a flight of stairs. Wonderful stuff.
He certainly puts our all singing all dancing boy bands to shame and it's a pity he moved from the musical to the mobster.
To my mind he rates up there with the likes of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and although it's a bit late to discover him now, I'm glad I have.
Incidentally, I can't dance for toffee.
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