Damn Yankees! (1967 film)
Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the baseball musical Damn Yankees.[1]
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 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 could 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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