Fresh
There is no pretense that Ball Game is anything more than a romp for Kelly's virtuosity.
Variety Staff, Variety
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
A Homerun Of Laughter, Romance And Fun
1949 · 1h 33m · Approved
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Busby Berkeley
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Overview
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
Director and cast
- Busby Berkeley Director
- Frank Sinatra as Dennis Ryan
- Esther Williams as K.C. Higgins
- Gene Kelly as Eddie O'Brien
- Betty Garrett as Shirley Delwyn
- Edward Arnold as Joe Lorgan
- Jules Munshin as Nat Goldberg
- Richard Lane as Michael Gihuly
- Tom Dugan as Slappy Burke
- Jackie Jackson as Child (uncredited)
- Edna Harris as Baseball Fan (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It must be said, too, that Mr. Kelly and his side-kick do right nicely by a brisk thing called "Yes, Indeedy," as well as the title song.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
What matters is the stylish ebullience, and the excellent score by Roger Edens, Adolph Green and Betty Comden.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
The plot is typical fluff -- Kelly and Sinatra join Esther Williams's baseball team at the turn of the century -- but the production values are, as always, worth the price of admission.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Rotten
A lazy Technicolored cinemusical aimed squarely and accurately at the summer box office.
TIME Magazine
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