. From 1923-1928, Cohan created four more song but none of these was successful. This added to Cohan's bitterness. Cohan remarked to a friend, "It getting to be too much for me, kid. I guess people don't understand me any more, and I don't understand them." He was due for still another disappointment. Cohan went to Hollywood in 1932 to star in ' The Phantom President. However, he found directors, who had never acted or sang, trying to teach him how to sing and dance, and to wave the flag. He felt that the big Hollywood moguls did not have enough respect for him. He returned to Broadway, and vowed never to return to Hollywood. But success was again hovering just around the corner.1933, Cohan starred in Eugene O'Neils 'Ah, Wilderness', a hit! 1937, Cohan played F.D.Roosevelt in 'I'd Rather Be Right', a Rodgers and Hart hit show. 1940, Cohan wrote the Broadway play, 'The return of the Vagabond'. It had a seven performance run. Cohan told a friend "They don't want me no more." 1942, Hollywood filmed 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' a biography (so-to-speak) of his life. Jimmy Cagney won an Academy Award for his impersonation of Cohan. In was in 1942, while Cohan was recovering from an abdominal operation, that he paid his last respects to Broadway. He asked his nurse to accompany him on a taxi ride from Union Square up to Times Square, stopping briefly at the Hollywood Theater, to watch some scenes from 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'. Cohan was taking one last look at all the places he had worked and starred. He was never to see Broadway again. George M. Cohan died on Nov. 5, 1942. President Roosevelt wired, "A beloved figure is lost to our national life."...
