Take Me Out to the Ball Game (film)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a 1949 Technicolor musical film starring Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, and Gene Kelly. The movie was directed by Busby Berkeley. The title and nominal theme is taken from the unofficial anthem of American baseball, Take Me Out to the Ball Game. The movie was released in the United Kingdom as Everybodys Cheering.

The ball clubs status quo is turned on its head when the team winds up under new ownership, and the distress this causes the team is only increased when the new owner is revealed to be a woman, K.C. Katherine Catherine Higgins Esther Williams. Eventually, Dennis falls for her, and then Eddie as well, while Dennis is the object of the affections of an ardent fan, Shirley Delwyn Betty Garrett. And all must contend with a number of gangsters looking to win a big bet by impairing Eddies play and getting him kicked off the team.Esther Williams, a star in swimmingthemed musicals, did not enjoy her experience filming with star, storywriter and choreographer Gene Kelly. In her autobiography, she describes her time on the film as pure misery, claiming that Kelly and Stanley Donen treated her with contempt and went out of their way to make jokes at her expense. Williams asserts that Kelly was uncomfortable with the height difference between them, Williams being 510, while Kelly was 57. ........

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