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Plot: "From the moment you picked up that grounder and threw it to third, I knew it was love." Baseball and romance make a nifty double play in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, a bright bauble from th...( read more read more... )e golden age of MGM musicals. The premise is a stretch: two members of a turn-of-the-century baseball team (Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra) are vaudeville performers in the off-season. Their ballclub is inherited by Esther Williams, causing much consternation among the boys and anticipating the plot line of Major League by 40 years.

Since swimming star Williams was always seen to best advantage dripping wet, the movie finds a way to get her into a hotel pool. Kelly, mugging mercilessly, executes an extended Irish solo dance (take that, Riverdance), and Sinatra, whose skinny frame is the source of many jokes in the script, is pursued by the irrepressible Betty Garrett and croons the ballad "The Right Girl for Me."

None of this is remotely plausible, and the Comden-Green songs don't stand the test of time, but the film is buoyant--and the period costumes and dazzling Technicolor are eye-popping. This was a reunion for Sinatra and Kelly after Anchors Aweigh (1945), and they would quickly team up again in the superior On the Town (1949), alongside Take Me Out costars Garrett and looming Jules Munshin. As in those films, Sinatra and Kelly dancing side-by- side are a delightful spectacle: Kelly effortlessly hitting his marks while Sinatra gamely tries to keep up. Take Me Out to the Ball Game was the last film directed by the legendary director-choreographer Busby Berkeley, who gets just one shot at a huge production number, a pseudo-Rodgers and Hammerstein tune, "Strictly U.S.A." Peanuts and Cracker Jack not included. --Robert Horton

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  • thomasscott2
    thomasscott2
    3.0 Stars
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    March 15, 2008
    This movie is one of the best baseball movies of all time- a very entertaining piece of postwar americana celebrating the all-american sport.
  • sydneyswans910
    sydneyswans910
    3.0 Stars
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    September 1, 2007
    A fun-filled, entertaining musical film from the duo of "Anchor's Aweigh", Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. They are amazing together, with their knack for singing and dance (and romance). Sinatra plays Dennis Ryan, portraying a character very similar to his counterpart in "Anchor's Aweigh" - a shy but adorable crooner who seeks a dame but finds another who has been there all along. Kelly (Dennis Ryan) is an obvious ladies-man, who's out to get K.C. "Katherine" Higgins (Esther Williams), the new baseball manager. The ultimate story of romance and baseball (the two loves of a lad), this film is filled with songs and attractive dance numbers. Betty Garrett as Shirley Delwyn is a lovely character to see, as the swooning fan of Dennis.
  • RuthieGreenGirl
    RuthieGreenGirl
    3.5 Stars
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    July 4, 2007
    I love Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra together. It's just a run of the mill musical, but it's still fun.
  • opheliaofshalott
    opheliaofshalott
    5.0 Stars
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    March 1, 2007
    one of the best baseball movies of all time- a very entertaining piece of postwar americana celebrating the all-american sport and, of course, having a memorable clam-bake sequence! gene kelly shines in this film, his solo dance sequence stands out alongside his duet with jerry the animated mouse as one of his best onscreen dance appearences.
  • KyPierceMASH4077
    KyPierceMASH4077
    4.0 Stars
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    January 3, 2007
    Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Esther Williams create the perfect movie, made me want to watch it over and over again. The movie is of course sweet and is definitely in the top 3 of Gene and Franks movies together. Recommended to all!!

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  • Rated: (Unrated)
  • Directed by: Busby Berkeley
  • Genres: Drama, Classics, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
  • Released: January 1, 1949
  • DVD Released: September 19, 2000

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