A nostalgic look back at the Great Depression with contemporary archival footage and film clips picturing James Cagney as an American Everyman.
Buy Movie Brother Can You Spare a Dime
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California, Here I Come |
Al Jolson: writer, performer
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The Drunkard Song (There Is a Tavern in the Town) |
Rudy Vallee: writer, performer
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Zaz Zuh Zaz |
Cab Calloway: writer, performer
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? |
Ronnie Lane: performer
Al Jolson: performer
Bing Crosby: performer
E.Y. Harburg: writer
Rudy Vallee: performer
Jay Gorney: composer
The Slim Chance Band: performer
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Big Rock Candy Mountain |
Harry McClintock: performer
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Ten Cents a Dance |
Richard Rodgers: composer
Lorenz Hart: writer
Ruth Etting: performer
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California, Here I Come |
Buddy G. DeSylva: writer
Joseph Meyer: composer
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Bei mir Bist du Schön |
Sammy Cahn: writer
The Andrews Sisters: performer
Jacob Jacobs: writer
Sholom Secunda: composer
Saul Chaplin: writer
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Long-Haired Preachers (The Preacher and the Slave) |
Harry McClintock: writer, performer
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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out |
Jimmy Cox: writer
Bessie Smith: performer
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Jeepers Creepers |
Louis Armstrong: performer
Harry Warren: composer
Johnny Mercer: writer
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Zaz Zuh Zaz |
Harry White: writer
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Dust Can't Kill Me |
Woody Guthrie: performer
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Vigilante Man |
Woody Guthrie: performer
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Downtown Uproar |
Duke Ellington: writer, performer
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Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day) |
Bing Crosby: writer, performer
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You're the Top |
Cole Porter: writer
Ethel Merman: performer
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Water Boy |
Paul Robeson: performer
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Dogmatic (Statements) |
The London Symphony Orchestra: performer
Aaron Copland: composer
London Symphony Orchestra: performer
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Now's the Time to Fall in Love |
Al Lewis: writer
Eddie Cantor: performer
Al Sherman: writer
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Long-Haired Preachers (The Preacher and the Slave) |
Joseph Webster: composer
J.P. Webster: composer
Joe Hill: writer
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Remember My Forgotten Man |
Harry Warren: composer
Al Dubin: writer
Joan Blondell: performer
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The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money) |
Harry Warren: composer
Al Dubin: writer
Ginger Rogers: performer
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Saddest Tale (Blues) |
Billie Holiday: performer
Duke Ellington: composer
Irving Mills: writer
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Hooray for Hollywood |
Richard A. Whiting: composer
Johnny Mercer: writer
Johnnie Davis: performer
Scat: performer
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Downtown Uproar |
Cootie Williams: writer
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Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day) |
Roy Turk: writer
Fred E. Ahlert: composer
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Shout and Feel It |
Count Basie: performer
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Anchors Aweigh |
Charles A. Zimmerman: composer
Alfred Hart Miles: writer
George D. Lottman: writer
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We're Out of the Red |
Lew Brown: writer
Jay Gorney: composer
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Every Man a King |
Huey Long: writer
Castro Carazo: composer
Ina Ray Hutton and Her All Girl Band: performer
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's Back Again |
Bill Cox: writer
John Cohen: performer
Tom Paley: performer
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The Entertainer |
Scott Joplin: composer
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Chicago (That Toddlin' Town) |
Fred Fisher: composer
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Give My Regards to Broadway |
George M. Cohan: composer
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The Stars and Stripes Forever |
John Philip Sousa: composer
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Dancing with Tears in My Eyes |
Joseph Burke: composer
Joseph A. Burke: composer
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William Tell Overture |
Gioachino Rossini: composer
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Soldier's Song |
Rudolph G. Kopp: composer
Harold Lamb: writer
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(I Wish I Was in) Dixie's Land |
Daniel Decatur Emmett: composer
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Congo |
M.K. Jerome: composer
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Lucky Number |
Cliff Hess: writer
The Nicholas Brothers: performer
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Taps |
Daniel Butterfield: composer
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