Fans of the principals and early MGM musicals will find this film entertaining enough, however I got the impression that it was terribly dated in the way it portrayed it's leading men. Gene Kelly in particular mugged his way through too many of the musical numbers, and I imagine the Frank Sinatra of a few decades later would have thought the one in this picture a cream puff.
When I was about ten years old, I had my tonsils and adenoids removed. In recovery back home, I well remember sitting up on our sofa with my my loving, supportive parents offering encouragement to me that "Yes Gordon, you will get your voice back, no Gordon your throat will not always be sore.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a spirited musical-comedy, resting its quality almost entirely on the weight of its performers, Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, as they play two baseball players who experience the shock of their careers when they find out the new owner of their baseball team is a woman (Esther Williams). At first, with her name announced as K.
At the turn of the century, two baseball players face trouble when they both fall in love with the new owner of their team.Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a disappointing film.
You might imagine, looking at the title of this movie, that it has something to do with baseball. You would be wrong.
This takes place in the early 1900s. Two ball players--Dennis Ryan (Frank Sinatra) and Eddie O'Brien (Gene Kelly)--are upset when their team starts being run by a woman--beautiful K.
Not one of the great musicals of the classic era, to be sure, but a fairly enjoyable one. The plot is nothing special, with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as ball players both smitten by their new owner, Esther Williams.
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they have been inherited by one K.C.
