Damn Yankees! (1958)
Actors:
Ray Walston (actor),
Jeffrey Sayre (actor),
Ralph Volkie (actor),
Charles Wagenheim (actor),
Robert Banas (actor),
Frank J. Scannell (actor),
Arthur Tovey (actor),
William Fawcett (actor),
Bob Fosse (actor),
Joseph Mell (actor),
Stuart Holmes (actor),
Tab Hunter (actor),
Jack Carr (actor),
Jean Stapleton (actress),
Phil Arnold (actor),
Plot: 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.
Keywords: age-regression, airplane-crash, baseball, baseball-comissioner, baseball-widow, based-on-book, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-book, beat-the-devil, dancing
Genres:
Comedy,
Musical,
Sport,
Taglines: It's a picture in a million! Starring that girl in a million, the red-headed darling of the Broadway show, Gwen Verdon!
Quotes:
Meg Boyd: Is Washington winning dear?::Joe Boyd: Noooo. Those damn Yankees.
Meg Boyd: In Hannibal, they were always sayin' cool air was on its way from Canada.
Meg Boyd: Now, my friends Sister and Doris, they like baseball... but they don't suffer so!
Joe Boyd: One long ball hitter, that's what we need! I'd sell my soul for one long ball hitter.
Mr. Applegate: With my help a lot of things come easy.::[lights a cigarette from within his hand and Joe looks shocked]::Mr. Applegate: Ohhhh, uh, do you smoke?::Joe Boyd: Hey... how'd you pull that off?::Mr. Applegate: I'm handy with fire.
Joe Boyd: What happens after I stop being a baseball player? Then where would I be?::Mr. Applegate: [laughs] Well now, of course that's fairly well known.::Joe Boyd: Yes, but I have...::Mr. Applegate: After all, there's nothing unusual about it. How do you suppose some of these politicians around town got started? And parking lot owners?
Mr. Applegate: Wives! They cause me more trouble than the Methodist church.
Smokey: Hey Linvy, what's a three letter word for "a sticky substance"? [Linville thinks for a moment and then points to a wad of gum in his mouth] Spit? No, that's four.
Rocky: It's not that I'm dumb, Benny!::Van Buren: Nobody said anything about your being dumb... exactly.
Van Buren: [singing] You've gotta have heart, / All you really need is heart./ When the odds are sayin' you'll never win /That's when the grin should start.