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Damn Yankees! (1967 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Damn Yankees!' is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the baseball musical 'Damn Yankees'.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.
Longtime sportscaster and NBC host Joe Garagiola supplied an on-camera set-up to the background for the storys premise of envy of the successful New York Yankees team.
The pop-art production design and stagingTV: New Damn Yankees; Kirk Brownings Version of Musical Employs a Mixture of Staging Forms, by Jack Gould. New York Times, 10 Ap. 1967: 71. featured collage 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 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
*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.
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