Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Movie [VHS]

Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Movie [VHS]
by Busby Berkeley

Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Movie [VHS]
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VHS Tape Cover Information

Actor: Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold, Esther Williams, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly
Director: Busby Berkeley
Writer: Gene Kelly
Cinematographer: George J. Folsey
Producer: Arthur Freed
Writer: George Wells
Writer: Harry Crane
Writer: Harry Tugend
Writer: Stanley Donen
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 93 minutes
Release Date: 1999-04-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Studio: MGM (Warner)

VHS Movie Reviews of Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Movie [VHS]

Movie Review: Completely satisfied!
Summary: 5 Stars

This was recommended by my daughter for my son and it was a "big hit!" Lots of fun and great for any Gene Kelly fan.

Summary of Take Me Out to the Ball Game / Movie [VHS]

"From the moment you picked up that grounder and threw it to third, I knew it was love." Baseball and romance make a nifty double play in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, a bright bauble from the golden age of MGM musicals. The premise is a stretch: two members of a turn-of-the-century baseball team (Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra) are vaudeville performers in the off-season. Their ballclub is inherited by Esther Williams, causing much consternation among the boys and anticipating the plot line of Major League by 40 years.

Since swimming star Williams was always seen to best advantage dripping wet, the movie finds a way to get her into a hotel pool. Kelly, mugging mercilessly, executes an extended Irish solo dance (take that, Riverdance), and Sinatra, whose skinny frame is the source of many jokes in the script, is pursued by the irrepressible Betty Garrett and croons the ballad "The Right Girl for Me."

None of this is remotely plausible, and the Comden-Green songs don't stand the test of time, but the film is buoyant--and the period costumes and dazzling Technicolor are eye-popping. This was a reunion for Sinatra and Kelly after Anchors Aweigh (1945), and they would quickly team up again in the superior On the Town (1949), alongside Take Me Out costars Garrett and looming Jules Munshin. As in those films, Sinatra and Kelly dancing side-by- side are a delightful spectacle: Kelly effortlessly hitting his marks while Sinatra gamely tries to keep up. Take Me Out to the Ball Game was the last film directed by the legendary director-choreographer Busby Berkeley, who gets just one shot at a huge production number, a pseudo-Rodgers and Hammerstein tune, "Strictly U.S.A." Peanuts and Cracker Jack not included. --Robert Horton

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