Directed by:
Busby BerkeleyCinematography:
George J. FolseyCast:
Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold, Jules Munshin, Richard Lane, Tom Dugan, Sally Forrest, Joi Lansing, Mitchell Lewis (more)Plots(1)
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 range from a soft-shoe 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. (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Frank Sinatra
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Esther Williams
USA
Best movies:
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Gene Kelly
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Betty Garrett
USA
Best movies:
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
On the Town (1949)
The Long Way Home (1998) (TV movie)
Edward Arnold
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Jules Munshin
USA
Best movies:
Easter Parade (1948)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
On the Town (1949)
Richard Lane
USA
Best movies:
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Carefree (1938)
Tom Dugan
Ireland
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Sally Forrest
USA
Best movies:
Mystery Street (1950)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
While the City Sleeps (1956)
Joi Lansing
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Easter Parade (1948)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Mitchell Lewis
USA
Best movies:
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Gordon Jones
USA
Best movies:
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
Pat Flaherty
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Charles Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Fury (1936)
Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Dick Wessel
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Gil Perkins
Australia
Best movies:
Raging Bull (1980)
Captains Courageous (1937)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Douglas Fowley
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Brick Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Love Crazy (1941)
Sol Gorss
USA
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Spartacus (1960)