Underplayed Gems

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1950)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game poster
Directed by
Busby Berkeley
Genre
musical film, romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In 1908, two baseball players who also perform as a song-and-dance act fall for a female team owner. Romantic complications and musical numbers ensue.

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What happens

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (released in the United Kingdom as Everybody's Cheering) is a 1949 American Technicolor musical romantic comedy film directed by Busby Berkeley and produced in the Arthur Freed unit of MGM. It stars Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold, and Jules Munshin. The title and nominal theme is taken from the unofficial anthem of American baseball, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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