en Damn Yankees! (1967 film)

*Damn Yankees!*
Damn Yankees!
Genre	Comedy; Musical; Sport
Written by	George Abbott; Douglass Wallop
Directed by	Kirk Browning
Starring	Phil Silvers; Lee Remick; Jerry Lanning
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Alvin Cooperman
Production location	NBC Brooklyn Studios
Editor	Jack Shultis
Running time	100 minutes
Production company	NBC
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	April 8, 1967

Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the 1955 baseball musical Damn Yankees,^[1] itself based on Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.

Longtime sportscaster and NBC host Joe Garagiola supplied an on-camera set-up to the background for the story’s premise of envy of the successful New York Yankees team.

The pop-art production design and staging^[2] featured collage animation and early examples of color Chroma key compositing to achieve traveling mattes for TV.^[3]

It was recorded at NBC's Brooklyn Studios and “colorcast“ on April 8, 1967 as a production of a relaunched General Electric Theater which ran from the late 1960s into the early 1970s.

Cast

Lee Remick as Lola
Phil Silvers as Applegate
Jim Backus as Benny Van Buren
Fran Allison as Mrs. Meg Boyd
Jerry Lanning as Joe Hardy
Ray Middleton as Joe Boyd
Linda Lavin as Gloria Thorpe
Bob Dishy as Rocky

Note: All the principal cast were singers, so they could all supply their own vocals for the soundtrack without being dubbed.

References

^ Devilish Difficulties Pursue 'Damn Yankees': With Club in 10th, Plot of TV Musical Needs Explaining Once Upon a Time, Beating New York Was a Fantasy By Leonard Koppett. New York Times 26 Feb 1967: S3.
^ TV: New ‘Damn Yankees’; Kirk Browning’s Version of Musical Employs a Mixture of Staging Forms, by Jack Gould. New York Times, 10 Ap. 1967: 71.
^ The Cleveland Press, TV Showtime, Apr. 7-14, 1967, cover art.

External links

Damn Yankees at IMDb

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[1] Devilish Difficulties Pursue 'Damn Yankees': With Club in 10th, Plot of TV Musical Needs Explaining Once Upon a Time, Beating New York Was a Fantasy By Leonard Koppett. New York Times 26 Feb 1967: S3.

[2] TV: New ‘Damn Yankees’; Kirk Browning’s Version of Musical Employs a Mixture of Staging Forms, by Jack Gould. New York Times, 10 Ap. 1967: 71.

[3] The Cleveland Press, TV Showtime, Apr. 7-14, 1967, cover art.

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