DAMN YANKEES

Damn Yankees
Warner Bros., 1958, Color, 111 minutes, ***
Released September, 1958

Step up to the plate for Damn Yankees, the rousing movie of the 1,019-performance Broadway grand-slam that imports nearly all the original New York lineup, including Tony Award-winning stars Gwen Verdon as luscious vamp Lola and Ray Walston as Satanic boss Applegate. Hollywood's Tab Hunter suits up as potential lost soul and Washington Senators slugger Joe Hardy, revealing a freewheeling fun side unseen in previous roles. The Pajama Game duo of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross serve up an out-of-the-park home-run score, including "Whatever Lola Wants" and "Heart." Choreographer Bob Fosse provides all the right moves, and he joins Verdon on screen in performing "Who's Got the Pain?" No pain here, just pure pleasure.

Produced and Directed by: George Abbott and Stanley Donen
Associate Producers: Frederick Brisson, Robert Griffith, Harold Prince
Assistant Director: Ivan Volkman
Screenplay by: George Abbott
Based upon the play "Damn Yankees" book by George Abbott and Douglas Wallop
From Douglas Wallop's Novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant
Music and Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Produced by Brisson, Griffith and Prince
Music and Lyrics by: Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Song Score: Richard Adler and Jerry Ross
Choreography by: Bob Fosse
Production and Costumes Designed by: William and Jean Eckart
Art Director: Stanley Fleischer
Set Decorator: John P. Austin
Makeup Supervisor: Gordon Bau
Sound by: Stanley Jones, Dolph Thomas
Director of Photography: Harold Lipstein
In Technicolor
Film Editor: Frank Bracht

Awards: Academy Award nomination for Best Score - Musical

Cast: Tab Hunter [Joe Hardy], Gwen Verdon [Lola], Ray Walston [Applegate], Russ Brown [Van Buren], Shannon Bolin [Meg], Nathaniel Frey [Smokey], Jimmie Komack [Rocky], Rae Allen [Gloria], Robert Shafer [Joe Boyd], Jean Stapleton [Sister], Albert Linville [Vernon], Additional Cast: Bob Fosse [Mambo Dancer], Elizabeth Howell [Doris], William Fawcett [Hawkins], Frank J. Scannell, Joseph Mell [Reporters]

Musical Program: [0:03] Six Months Out of Every Year (sung by Shannon Bolin, Robert Shafer and Chorus); [0:13] Goodbye, Old Girl (sung by Robert Shafer then by Tab Hunter); [0:19] Heart (sung by Russ Brown, James Komack, Nathaniel Frey, Albert Linville); [0:32] Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, Mo. (sung and danced by Rae Allen and the The Senators); [0:39] There's Something About an Empty Chair (sung by Shannon Bolin); [0:50] A Little Brains, a Little Talent (sung by Gwen Verdon); [1:01] Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets) (sung and danced by Gwen Verdon); [1:09] Those Were the Good Old Days (sung by Ray Walston); [1:18] Who's Got the Pain (sung and danced by Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse - cute number!); [1:23] Heart (sung by Jean Stapleton and Boys); [1:35] Two Lost Souls (sung and danced by Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon and Chorus); [1:49] There's Something About an Empty Chair (sung by Shannon Bolin and Robert Shafer)