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Take Me Out to the Ball Game [VHS]
by (Writer: Gene Kelly) (Cinematographer: George J. Folsey) (Producer: Arthur Freed) (Writer: George Wells) (Writer: Harry Crane) (Writer: Harry Tugend) (Writer: Stanley Donen)
Director: Busby Berkeley
Product Group: Video
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
ISBN: 6301978366
EAN: 9786301978361
UPC: 027616050335
Binding/Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 93 minutes
Release Date: 1994-06-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
SKU: 09030087
Condition: Like New
DJ Condition: Very Good
Comments: VHS tape in like new condition. From private collection so no rental or library stickers. Very good plus original uncut case with very minor wear. Play-tested and has excellent video and audio. Beautiful tape
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"From the moment you picked up that grounder and threw it to third, I knew it was love." Baseball and romance make a nifty double play in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, a bright bauble from the golden age of MGM musicals. The premise is a stretch: two members of a turn-of-the-century baseball team (Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra) are vaudeville performers in the off-season. Their ballclub is inherited by Esther Williams, causing much consternation among the boys and anticipating the plot line of Major League by 40 years. Since swimming star Williams was always seen to best advantage dripping wet, the movie finds a way to get her into a hotel pool. Kelly, mugging mercilessly, executes an extended Irish solo dance (take that, Riverdance), and Sinatra, whose skinny frame is the source of many jokes in the script, is pursued by the irrepressible Betty Garrett and croons the ballad "The Right Girl for Me." None of this is remotely plausible, and the Comden-Green songs don't stand the test of time, but the film is buoyant--and the period costumes and dazzling Technicolor are eye-popping. This was a reunion for Sinatra and Kelly after Anchors Aweigh (1945), and they would quickly team up again in the superior On the Town (1949), alongside Take Me Out costars Garrett and looming Jules Munshin. As in those films, Sinatra and Kelly dancing side-by- side are a delightful spectacle: Kelly effortlessly hitting his marks while Sinatra gamely tries to keep up. Take Me Out to the Ball Game was the last film directed by the legendary director-choreographer Busby Berkeley, who gets just one shot at a huge production number, a pseudo-Rodgers and Hammerstein tune, "Strictly U.S.A." Peanuts and Cracker Jack not included. --Robert Horton
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