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Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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Synopsis:< b/>
Busby Burkeley directs Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin together once again playing three ball players for the championship team, The Wolves. But this season, O'Brian (Kelly), and Ryan (Sinatra) would much rather like to be dancing and singing in a Vaudeville show. Both of them decide to put showbiz on hold for a while and are they glad they do! The new owner of the team just happens to be K.C. Higgins (Ester Williams), a knockout that has both the boys panting. O'Brian and Ryan spend much of the rest of the film trying to win the hand of their new boss while Ryan is pursued endlessly by an adoring fan, Shirley Delwyn (Betty Garrett). It all comes to a head when the Wolves' key shortstop, O'Brian, is lured away to Vaudeville by a conniving, gambling producer who wishes for the Wolves to lose their last big game.
Review:< b/>
We need more Technicolor pictures! Unfortunately they've become much to expensive to produce but one look at the vibrant pictures produced in "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" and you'll see what I mean. Sinatra, Kelly and Munshin are great showmen and they do a fantastic job of singing and dancing their way into your heart. With show stopping dance moves from Kelly in "The Hat My Father Wore Upon St. Patrick's Day" and the crooning prowess of The Chairman of the Board in "The Right Girl For Me" there's hardly a moment to be board with this picture. This film marks the first teaming of Ester Williams with cinematic legends Sinatra and Kelly and she holds her own nicely while singing but even if she couldn't force a note out of that pretty, soft neck of hers, the film would be none the worse. Williams is absolutely gorgeous in this film, especially in Technicolor! She is dressed in all the right outfits to show off that swimmer's figure—She was an Olympic class swimmer, remember?—and every gown frames her beautiful face perfectly. Betty Garrett manages to stop the show herself in a spitfire number called "It's Fate Baby it's Fate".
All in all, it's a movie that should be on your list of rentals if you're fond of musicals and it should already be on your DVD shelf if you consider yourself a true fan of any of the film's stars, Busby Burkeley, old movies or musicals.
The DVD:< b/>
Some of the great things are: theatrical trailers from "Anchor's Away", "On The Town" and "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and two deleted musical numbers "Baby Doll" and "Boys and Girls Like You and Me". Kelly sings "Baby Doll" with Williams and Sinatra croons "Boys and Girls" to Garrett. Both are reworked for not all of the original footage is still in existence but it's a great thrill for an old musical buff. The sound is well preserved as well and you'll just love to blast the big musical numbers through your surround sound.
Busby Burkeley directs Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin together once again playing three ball players for the championship team, The Wolves. But this season, O'Brian (Kelly), and Ryan (Sinatra) would much rather like to be dancing and singing in a Vaudeville show. Both of them decide to put showbiz on hold for a while and are they glad they do! The new owner of the team just happens to be K.C. Higgins (Ester Williams), a knockout that has both the boys panting. O'Brian and Ryan spend much of the rest of the film trying to win the hand of their new boss while Ryan is pursued endlessly by an adoring fan, Shirley Delwyn (Betty Garrett). It all comes to a head when the Wolves' key shortstop, O'Brian, is lured away to Vaudeville by a conniving, gambling producer who wishes for the Wolves to lose their last big game.
Review:< b/>
We need more Technicolor pictures! Unfortunately they've become much to expensive to produce but one look at the vibrant pictures produced in "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" and you'll see what I mean. Sinatra, Kelly and Munshin are great showmen and they do a fantastic job of singing and dancing their way into your heart. With show stopping dance moves from Kelly in "The Hat My Father Wore Upon St. Patrick's Day" and the crooning prowess of The Chairman of the Board in "The Right Girl For Me" there's hardly a moment to be board with this picture. This film marks the first teaming of Ester Williams with cinematic legends Sinatra and Kelly and she holds her own nicely while singing but even if she couldn't force a note out of that pretty, soft neck of hers, the film would be none the worse. Williams is absolutely gorgeous in this film, especially in Technicolor! She is dressed in all the right outfits to show off that swimmer's figure—She was an Olympic class swimmer, remember?—and every gown frames her beautiful face perfectly. Betty Garrett manages to stop the show herself in a spitfire number called "It's Fate Baby it's Fate".
All in all, it's a movie that should be on your list of rentals if you're fond of musicals and it should already be on your DVD shelf if you consider yourself a true fan of any of the film's stars, Busby Burkeley, old movies or musicals.
The DVD:< b/>
Some of the great things are: theatrical trailers from "Anchor's Away", "On The Town" and "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and two deleted musical numbers "Baby Doll" and "Boys and Girls Like You and Me". Kelly sings "Baby Doll" with Williams and Sinatra croons "Boys and Girls" to Garrett. Both are reworked for not all of the original footage is still in existence but it's a great thrill for an old musical buff. The sound is well preserved as well and you'll just love to blast the big musical numbers through your surround sound.
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