George M. Cohan was known as “The Man Who Owned Broadway ... Re-released in 1996 by Ted Turner as the first computer-colorized film, it also was selected in 1993 by the Library of Congress ...
The previous record of two actors from the same film receiving Oscar nods for ... The first to do so was James Cagney for playing entertainer George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).