Take Me Out to the Ball Game

For me, the only drawback to TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME is the fact that I read the ESTHER WILLIAMS biography and in it she expresses what I can only describe as contempt for the way GENE KELLY... Full review

There are a couple of reasons why this movie is in my opinion better than the average MGM musical movie.One is the story. Of course it features a love-story but the movie takes an original approach and takes a couple... Full review

Gene Kelly took this idea to Arthur Freed about an original musical which would combine two big loves of his, baseball and the dance. The story would be based on Al Schacht and Nick Altrock who played ball during the... Full review

Was it a mere 50 years ago that every major studio - but particularly MGM - was routinely producing several musical comedies every year? These were "entertainments" in every sense of the word: fast, funny, colorful, escapist. Some were low... Full review

Pleasant turn of the century story of 2 baseball player/vauldevillians (Sinatra and Kelly) whose soft lives are shaken up when go-getter Williams inherits their franchise and takes up an active, controversial, management. Solid story packed with good jokes and believable,... Full review

In TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly play Dennis Ryan and Eddie O'Brien, two best pals who work the vaudeville circuit during the baseball off-season, but play with the Wolves club in the summer,... Full review

Frank Sinatra's colourful life and infamous connections always make it difficult for me to accept him in the role of a naive young goof, but that's probably the least of my complaints about this movie.Usually, because the musical numbers leave... Full review

I thought Sinatra and Kelly were great in "Anchors Aweigh". I had no idea they could be even better together. This is such a funny film with great dance numbers from Kelly and singing from Sinatra. Plus having Esther Williams... Full review

The first half of this movie had its moments, but I didn't particularly enjoy it. It does indeed have many resemblences to On the Town, which came after it, only this time in a baseball field at the turn of... Full review

"Take Me Out To The Ball Game" and "On The Town" were both made in 1949, and they both follow MGM's house formula pretty closely. The same three heroes are in uniform again (Kelly, Sinatra and Munshin), and Betty Garrett... Full review

TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME also features a wonderful comic performance from Betty Garrett as Shirley Delwyn, the baseball groupie with eyes for Ryan. The Dolby Digital monaural soundtrack does have the frequency limitations of a film that is over fifty years old, however the sound is undistorted and the track is well worth amplifying- after TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME is a musical. ... Full Review

Take Me Out to the Ball Game is so delightful as it stands that one can only wonder what the film would have looked like had MGM's first choice Kathryn Grayson--or the studio's second choice, Judy Garland--played the Esther Williams role (In a similar vein, the Frank Sinatra character was originally to have been played by real-life Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher! ... Full Review

THE FRANK SINATRA & GENE KELLY COLLECTION ON THE TOWN The Bronx is up and the Battery?s down, but no one can be down after seeing this ebullient tale of sailors on leave in Manhattan. ... Full Article

This Busby Berkeley musical about two fun-loving baseball stars in the days of yore played in this country as Everybody's Cheering. Gene Kelly steals most of the limelight, although a brilliant cast also includes Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Betty Garrett... ... Full Article