With our nation increasingly divided, several media gurus over the July 4 break decreed that Hollywood owed filmgoers a “feel-good-about-America” movie. Something unifying and patriotic…
, the film’s real-life protagonist, was depicted in the screenplay as an egocentric hustler who hit on underage girls. He also often danced in blackface and, occasionally, when critics slammed his shows, would buy newspaper ads with positive reviews .
Cohan knew that his career, too, was in decline. Departing from his formula musicals, he’d written and starred in a political satire titledThe critics hated it, the audience stayed home and Roosevelt himself reacted with a stern command to Cohan to show up at the White House. Would there be a public bashing?
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