Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly play ball in a big way as 1900s vaudevillians who spend the winter flinging the onstage blarney and the summer flinging the ol´ horsehide for baseball´s world champs, the Wolves.

Sinatra is second sacker Dennis Ryan and Kelly is shortstop Eddie O´Brien in this Busby Berkeley-directed romp that combines baseball with that other all-American pastime: romance. Esther Williams plays the new team owner and Betty Garrett is a Baseball Annie with eyes for blue-eyed Ryan. Kelly and Stanley Donen´s deft musical stagings ranged from a softshoe duet charmer to an exciting "barrel roll" Kelly solo. Their work persuaded producer Arthur Freed to green-light their direction of the same year´s On the Town.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 2 Juni, 2008