Damn Yankees! (1958) |
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Other InformationAwardsBest Written American Musical Writers Guild of America, USA [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Top Male Musical Performance Laurel Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Top Musical Laurel Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place) Top Female Musical Performance Laurel Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: 2nd place) Best Motion Picture - Musical Golden Globes [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures Directors Guild of America, USA [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Most Promising Newcomer to Film BAFTA Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture Academy Awards [1959] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Plot SummaryDamn Yankees is a frothy, faithful adaptation of the 1956 Broadway hit. In an amusing slant on the "Faust" legend, aging baseball fan Joe Boyd (Robert Schafer) is given an opportunity to lead his beloved Washington Senators to victory by a devilish g... TaglineIt`s a picture in a million! Starring that girl in a million, the red-headed darling of the Broadway show, Gwen Verdon! DiscographySinglesTwo Lost Souls Who`s Got the Pain Those Were The Good Old Days Whatever Lola Wants A Little Brains, A Little Talent There`s Something About An Empty Chair" Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, Mo Heart Goodbye, Old Girl Six Months Out of the Year |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Mr. Applegate: Wives! They cause me more trouble than the Methodist church.
Meg Boyd: Is Washington winning dear?
Joe Boyd: Noooo. Those damn Yankees.
Trivia The musical play "Damn Yankees" opened at the 46th Street Theater in New York City on May 5, 1955 and ran for 1,019 performances. Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown, Jean Stapleton, Shannon Bolin, Nathaniel Frey, James Komack, Rae Allen and Robert Shafer reprise their roles in the movie. The first film of Shannon Bolin. The first film of Jean Stapleton. Right after the mambo number, as the male dancer (choreographer Bob Fosse) leaves the stage, the Joe Hardy character shakes the dancer`s hand and says what sounds like, "Great work, Fosse!" The original theatrical trailer carried the name of the movie as "Whatever Lola Wants" instead of Damn Yankees (although the actual name was added parenthetically in smaller letters at the bottom of the screen). The Mambo Dancer who dances with Gwen Verdon in the "Joe Hardy" tribute was Bob Fosse - not only the choreographer of this film (and choreographer/director of later films, such as Cabaret (1972)) but also Verdon`s husband. Gwen Verdon was famous on Broadway for her hip movements, especially her "bumps", as they are called, but in 1958 "bumps" were not allowed in films, so her first number, "A Little Brains", contains odd static pauses where she had done "bumps" on stage. The actors had to sing along with a metronome, for the musicians that would normally have accompanied them were on strike at the time.
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