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| Tab Hunter | ... | Joe Hardy | |
| Gwen Verdon | ... | Lola | |
| Ray Walston | ... | Mr. Applegate | |
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Russ Brown | ... | Benny Van Buren |
| Shannon Bolin | ... | Mrs. Meg Boyd | |
| Nathaniel Frey | ... | Smokey | |
| James Komack | ... | Rocky | |
| Rae Allen | ... | Gloria Thorpe | |
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Robert Shafer | ... | Joe Boyd |
| Jean Stapleton | ... | Sister Miller | |
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Albert Linville | ... | Vernon |
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Roy Sievers | ... | Joe Hardy - #2 - Washington Senators (archive footage) |
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Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant. Written by Stewart M. Clamen <clamen@cs.cmu.edu>
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baseball movie | based on stage musical based on book | faust | based on stage musical | world series |Taglines:
The Picture That Cops the Pennant for Great Entertainment! See more »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
4 January 1959 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Damn Yankees See more »Filming Locations:
Midwest Business and Residential Street, Warner Brothers Backlot, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Music by Richard Adler
Lyrics by Jerry Ross
Performed by Shannon Bolin, Robert Shafer, and chorus
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The stage musical and movie were based on the novel "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant", by Douglas Wallopp. See more »Goofs
During Joe's tryout batting practice, he hits four over the fence. On his fifth attempt, he hits what is called another shot over the fence. However, when we see him from behind the backstop taking this swing, one can clearly see a small cloud of dust to the left of Joe, near the edge of the infield grass, where the ball he hits actually bounces. See more »Quotes
Ballplayers: So what the heck's the use of cryin'? / Why should we curse? / We gotta get better / 'cause we can't get worse!See more »
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Six Months Out of Every YearMusic by Richard Adler
Lyrics by Jerry Ross
Performed by Shannon Bolin, Robert Shafer, and chorus
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If you ask me - and I'm a "jazz" man as you can see from my moniker - Damn Yankees is the best musical ever. The subject matter is classic, the story is entertaining, the music is scintillating, and the lyrics are clever to the Nth degree with layers upon layers of internal rhyming that reveal new intricacies with each listening.
Okay, the movie has some weaknesses. Anybody BUT Tab Hunter would probably have been better as Joe Hardy. Also one of the best numbers from the play, "I Thought About The Game" was cut because it was considered too lewd for the movie.
But that's quibbling. Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston lift this movie into the upper echelons of all time greatest musicals.