''Damn Yankees!'' is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by
Kirk Browning of the baseball musical ''
Damn Yankees
''Damn Yankees'' is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during ...
''.
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
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Amer ...
team.
The
pop-art production design and staging featured
collage
Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...
animation and early examples of color
Chroma key compositing to achieve
traveling mattes for TV.
[The Cleveland Press, TV Showtime, Apr. 7-14, 1967, cover art.]
It was recorded at the old
Vitagraph Studios
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, ...
in Brooklyn and “colorcast“ on 8 April 1967 as a production of a relaunched
”G.E. Theater” which ran from late 60s into early 70s.
Cast
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Lee Remick
Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film ''Days of Wine and Roses (film), Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962), and for the 1966 ...
as Lola
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Phil Silvers as Applegate
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Jim Backus as Benny Van Buren
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Fran Allison as Mrs. Meg Boyd
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Jerry Lanning as Joe Hardy
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Ray Middleton as Joe Boyd
*
Linda Lavin as Gloria Thorpe
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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
External links
''Damn Yankees''at
IMDb
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1967 television films
1967 films
American television films
Films directed by Kirk Browning
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