Something curious about this picture - how is it a Mexican actress is selling American war bonds at a baseball game? Something to think about.
Well this is my first look at actress Lupe Velez and I'll have to temper my reaction and be fair by checking her out in another picture. Here I thought she was just a bit too overbearing and the movie itself was more slapstick than I anticipated. The premise of an all star pitcher being off his game whenever he got involved with a woman was probably a good one to start off with, but with Eddie Albert in that role it didn't really work for me. On the mound he looked just plain goofy.
Cool to see boxing champ Max Baer though, having seen him previously in the Bogart film "The Harder They Fall" in which he portrayed a version of himself from real life. As the catcher for Wacky Waters' (Albert) team The Sox, he had a decent chemistry with Patsy Kelly as his wife Hazel. Funny how The Sox and their on field opponents didn't have home towns.
If you like baseball films you might want to check this one out, although the game is obviously secondary to the hi-jinks involved with the players' wives and girlfriends, and how they try to insulate newlywed Pepita Zorita (Velez) from her husband Wacky (or is that Wacky husband?) so the team can make the World Series. For Eddie Albert, this would be kind of a warm up being married to a foreigner with a heavy accent, something he would do once again in the late Sixties hit comedy "Green Acres" with co-star Eva Gabor.
Well this is my first look at actress Lupe Velez and I'll have to temper my reaction and be fair by checking her out in another picture. Here I thought she was just a bit too overbearing and the movie itself was more slapstick than I anticipated. The premise of an all star pitcher being off his game whenever he got involved with a woman was probably a good one to start off with, but with Eddie Albert in that role it didn't really work for me. On the mound he looked just plain goofy.
Cool to see boxing champ Max Baer though, having seen him previously in the Bogart film "The Harder They Fall" in which he portrayed a version of himself from real life. As the catcher for Wacky Waters' (Albert) team The Sox, he had a decent chemistry with Patsy Kelly as his wife Hazel. Funny how The Sox and their on field opponents didn't have home towns.
If you like baseball films you might want to check this one out, although the game is obviously secondary to the hi-jinks involved with the players' wives and girlfriends, and how they try to insulate newlywed Pepita Zorita (Velez) from her husband Wacky (or is that Wacky husband?) so the team can make the World Series. For Eddie Albert, this would be kind of a warm up being married to a foreigner with a heavy accent, something he would do once again in the late Sixties hit comedy "Green Acres" with co-star Eva Gabor.