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Take Me out to the Ball Game

( Catalog Number ML100503 )
(1.33:1) (Digital) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Original Theatrical Trailer
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Take Me out to the Ball Game
1949 - 95 min. - Color
Genre: Musical
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
So baseball pictures never make money, eh Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their 1949 baseball musical Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Set in 1906, the film concerns the adventures and misadventures of The Wolves, a champion ball club. The team's success is contingent upon the double-play combination of "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg." But while Goldberg (Jules Munshin) lives to play baseball, O'Brien (Gene Kelly) and Ryan (Frank Sinatra) would rather pursue their off-season vaudeville career. Both erstwhile song-and-dance men decide to stick around on the baseball diamond when they mutually fall in love with the Wolves' new owner, the lovely K.C. Higgins (Esther Williams). Though O'Brien wins K.C. for himself, Ryan is compensated with the aggressively affectionate Shirley Delwyn (Betty Garrett). Gambler Joe Lorgan (Edward Arnold), who has bet heavily against the Wolves in an upcoming Big Game, woos O'Brien away from the team with promises of a big role in an upcoming musical comedy. Having let down K.C. and the rest of the team, O'Brien vows to redeem himself by playing in the crucial game. Lorgan gets wind of this, and orders his henchmen to do away with O'Brien. Hoping to shield his buddy from harm, Ryan beans O'Brien with a pitched ball, thereby incapacitating the prodigal player. The crooks are vanquished, and K.C. forgives O'Brien. But upon learning that Ryan had knocked him out, O'Brien charges onto the diamond, thirsting for revenge. Believe it or not, this action results in no fewer than two winning home runs! We offer you this detailed synopsis because it's likely that you'll be too entertained by the film's musical numbers to pay any attention to the story. Outside of the title number and Gene Kelly's solo "The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day," the picture's best songs are contributed by Betty Comden, Adolf Green and Roger Edens. Take Me Out to the Ball Game is so delightful as it stands that one can only wonder what the film would have looked like had MGM's first choice Kathryn Grayson---or the studio's second choice, Judy Garland---played the Esther Williams role (In a similar vein, the Frank Sinatra character was originally to have been played by real-life Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher!) --- Hal Erickson

Coming between Anchors Aweigh and On the Town, Take Me Out to the Ball Game is the least accomplished of the three Frank Sinatra-Gene Kelly pictures, but it's still fun And the setting, at least, is fairly unique for a musical. It also boasts one of the busier plots of any 1940s musical --- and yet it really all adds up to just a series of connected incidents rather than a real story. This is driven home when the picture abruptly (and oddly) ends with a lyric telling the audience "the love scene must be played out/before the final fade-out" and referring to the actors by their real names rather than their character names. Still, it's mostly a fast-paced affair, and the musical sequences pack in plenty of entertainment. There's only one trademark Busby Berkeley production number, "Strictly USA," but "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg," "It's Fate, Baby, It's Fate" and "The Right Girl for Me" are all nicely done. Kelly is cocky and acrobatic, and Sinatra has his reluctant lover routine down pat. Betty Garrett bats home her one-liners like the pro she is, and even Esther Williams comes off well here. The movie also has that great, sometimes-gaudy visual sheen that one expects from an MGM musical. Although he would continue to work sporadically as a choreographer, Berkeley would direct only one more musical. --- Craig Butler

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Cast for Take Me out to the Ball Game

Frank Sinatra
Esther Williams
Gene Kelly
Betty Garrett
Edward Arnold
Jules Munshin
Richard Lane
Tom Dugan
Ramon Blackburn
Royce Blackburn

Crew for Take Me out to the Ball Game

Producer Arthur Freed
Cinematographer George J. Folsey
Costume Designer Helen Rose
Costume Designer Valles
Director Busby Berkeley
Editor Blanche Sewell
Peter Ballbusch
James Gooch
Natalie Kalmus
Writer Harry Tugend
Writer Gene Kelly
Writer George Wells
Writer Stanley Donen

Feature Details

Title: Take Me out to the Ball Game
Feature Release Date: 1949
Genre: Musical
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Color
Runtime: 95 Minutes
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV
Trailer: Original Theatrical Trailer

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 1 Apr 1992
Catalog Number: ML100503
UPC: 027616050366
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Sound: Digital
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: ML100503-N
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
1 in Stock

Rare Factory-Sealed LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint Condition

Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams and Gene Kelly in...

Take Me out to the Ball Game

( Catalog Number ML100503 )
(1.33:1) (Digital) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Original Theatrical Trailer
LaserDisc

Take Me out to the Ball Game
1949 - 95 min. - Color
Genre: Musical
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
So baseball pictures never make money, eh Try telling that to MGM, which raked in a box office gross of $4 million on their 1949 baseball musical Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Set in 1906, the film concerns the adventures and misadventures of The Wolves, a champion ball club. The team's success is contingent upon the double-play combination of "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg." But while Goldberg (Jules Munshin) lives to play baseball, O'Brien (Gene Kelly) and Ryan (Frank Sinatra) would rather pursue their off-season vaudeville career. Both erstwhile song-and-dance men decide to stick around on the baseball diamond when they mutually fall in love with the Wolves' new owner, the lovely K.C. Higgins (Esther Williams). Though O'Brien wins K.C. for himself, Ryan is compensated with the aggressively affectionate Shirley Delwyn (Betty Garrett). Gambler Joe Lorgan (Edward Arnold), who has bet heavily against the Wolves in an upcoming Big Game, woos O'Brien away from the team with promises of a big role in an upcoming musical comedy. Having let down K.C. and the rest of the team, O'Brien vows to redeem himself by playing in the crucial game. Lorgan gets wind of this, and orders his henchmen to do away with O'Brien. Hoping to shield his buddy from harm, Ryan beans O'Brien with a pitched ball, thereby incapacitating the prodigal player. The crooks are vanquished, and K.C. forgives O'Brien. But upon learning that Ryan had knocked him out, O'Brien charges onto the diamond, thirsting for revenge. Believe it or not, this action results in no fewer than two winning home runs! We offer you this detailed synopsis because it's likely that you'll be too entertained by the film's musical numbers to pay any attention to the story. Outside of the title number and Gene Kelly's solo "The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day," the picture's best songs are contributed by Betty Comden, Adolf Green and Roger Edens. Take Me Out to the Ball Game is so delightful as it stands that one can only wonder what the film would have looked like had MGM's first choice Kathryn Grayson---or the studio's second choice, Judy Garland---played the Esther Williams role (In a similar vein, the Frank Sinatra character was originally to have been played by real-life Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher!) --- Hal Erickson

Coming between Anchors Aweigh and On the Town, Take Me Out to the Ball Game is the least accomplished of the three Frank Sinatra-Gene Kelly pictures, but it's still fun And the setting, at least, is fairly unique for a musical. It also boasts one of the busier plots of any 1940s musical --- and yet it really all adds up to just a series of connected incidents rather than a real story. This is driven home when the picture abruptly (and oddly) ends with a lyric telling the audience "the love scene must be played out/before the final fade-out" and referring to the actors by their real names rather than their character names. Still, it's mostly a fast-paced affair, and the musical sequences pack in plenty of entertainment. There's only one trademark Busby Berkeley production number, "Strictly USA," but "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg," "It's Fate, Baby, It's Fate" and "The Right Girl for Me" are all nicely done. Kelly is cocky and acrobatic, and Sinatra has his reluctant lover routine down pat. Betty Garrett bats home her one-liners like the pro she is, and even Esther Williams comes off well here. The movie also has that great, sometimes-gaudy visual sheen that one expects from an MGM musical. Although he would continue to work sporadically as a choreographer, Berkeley would direct only one more musical. --- Craig Butler

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Cast for Take Me out to the Ball Game

Frank Sinatra
Esther Williams
Gene Kelly
Betty Garrett
Edward Arnold
Jules Munshin
Richard Lane
Tom Dugan
Ramon Blackburn
Royce Blackburn

Crew for Take Me out to the Ball Game

Producer Arthur Freed
Cinematographer George J. Folsey
Costume Designer Helen Rose
Costume Designer Valles
Director Busby Berkeley
Editor Blanche Sewell
Peter Ballbusch
James Gooch
Natalie Kalmus
Writer Harry Tugend
Writer Gene Kelly
Writer George Wells
Writer Stanley Donen

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