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Damn Yankees is a 1958 American musical sports romantic comedy film. It was directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Abbott, adapted from his and Douglass Wallop's book of the 1955 musical of the same name with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, itself based on the 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Wallop.
The film was a financial and critical success, [6]: 131 and Donen was compared to such directors as Ernst Lubitsch and George Cukor. [5] Donen briefly returned to the musical genre with Damn Yankees! (also 1958), based on George Abbott's Broadway hit. He again co-directed with Abbott in the same hands-off collaboration as their first film.
Damn Yankees, directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen, starring Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston; Darby's Rangers, directed by William Wellman, starring James Garner; The Deep Six, starring Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. The Defiant Ones, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier
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 [ 1 ] set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball .
The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Pages in category "Films about the New York Yankees" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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