George M Cohan Net Worth

He was an early member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, or the ASCAP. Cohan was called “the man who owned Broadway” and the “Father of American musical comedy”. Cohan’s life and music were celebrated in the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942 which won an Academy Award, as well as in the 1968 musical George M!. Cohan has a statue in New York City’s Times Square. George M. Cohan passed away on November 5, 1942 at 64 years old from cancer.