Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a musical play by George M. Cohan in 1905, written about New Rochelle, New York. ^[1] The plays name refers to the 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway.^[2] The play is remembered for several songs, such as its title song, "Forty-five Minutes from Broadway" and for tunes about its leading lady character, "Mary Is a Grand Old Name" and "So Long Mary", which were presented in recreations of the original stage play within the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy.

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[edit] Forty-five Minutes from Broadway

Only forty-five minutes from Broadway

Think of the changes it brings

For the short time it takes

What a diff'rence it makes

In the ways of the people and things

Oh, what a fine bunch of reubens

Oh, what a jay ^[3] atmosphere

They have whiskers like hay

And imagine Broadway

Only forty-five minutes from here

[edit] Mary Is a Grand Old Name

For it was Mary; Mary

Plain as any name can be

But with propriety, society

Will say, "Marie"

But it was Mary; Mary

Long before the fashions came

And there is something there

That sounds so square

It's a grand old name

[edit] So Long Mary

Mary: It's awfully nice of all you boys to see me to the train

Chorus: So long, Mary

Mary: I didn't think you'd care if you should ne'er see me again

Chorus: You're wrong, Mary

Mary: This reminds me of my family / On the day I left Schenectady

Chorus: So long, Mary / Don't forget to come back home

As staged in the film Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), starring James Cagney, this sentimental song is lightened by a scene in which her luggage springs open. Her male admirers politely gather her bloomers and petticoats, and repack for the blushing Mary, while they continue singing.

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• Billy Murray sings "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway

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