Damn Yankees (1967)
1h 40m
Running Time
April 8, 1967Release Date
Damn Yankees (1967)
1h 40m
Running Time
April 8, 1967Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Phil Silvers
Mr. Applegate
Lee Remick
Lola
Jerry Lanning
Joe Hardy
Fran Allison
Meg Boyd
Jim Backus
Benny Van Buren
Kirk Browning
Director
Kirk Browning
Director
Ray Middleton
Joe Boyd
George Abbott
Writer
Linda Lavin
Gloria Thorpe
Bob Dishy
Rocky
Douglass Wallop
Writer
Lee Goodman
Linville
Jack Shultis
Editor
Eugene Troobnick
Smokey
Jerome E. Rosenfeld
ProductionDesigner
Walter Klavun
Welch
Wallace Rooney
Commissioner
Joe Garagiola
Himself
John Gerstad
Postmaster
Joe Cranzano
Makeup Artist
Alvin Cooperman
Executive Producer
Hub Braden
Assistant Art Director
Noel Taylor
Costume Design
Edith Hamlin
Casting
Robert Wright
Associate Producer
Harold Hastings
Music Director
Betty DeStefano
Hairstylist
Richard Adler
Songs / Music
Jerry Ross
Music / Lyricist
Ernie Flatt
Choreographer
Emil Neroda
Sound Mixer
Bill Cosmas
Unit Manager
Norman Ogg
Sound
Details.
Wiki.
Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the baseball musical Damn Yankees.Longtime sportscaster and NBC host Joe Garagiola supplied an on-camera set-up to the background for the story’s premise of envy of the successful New York Yankees team.
The pop-art production design and staging featured collage animation and early examples of color Chroma key compositing to achieve traveling mattes for TV.It was recorded at NBC's Brooklyn Studios and “colorcast“ on 8 April 1967 as a production of a relaunched ”G.E. Theater” which ran from late 60s into early 70s.