Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the 1955 baseball musical Damn Yankees, itself based on Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant.
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 featured collage animation and early examples of color Chroma key compositing to achieve traveling mattes for TV.
It was recorded at NBC's Brooklyn Studios and “colorcast“ on April 8, 1967 as a production of a relaunched General Electric Theater which ran from the late 1960s into the early 1970s.
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 they could all supply their own vocals for the soundtrack without being dubbed.
References
External links
- Damn Yankees at IMDb
