Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

93 mins | Comedy, Romance, Music | March 9, 1949

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.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

93 mins | Comedy, Romance, Music | March 9, 1949

Take Me Out to the Ball Game
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Directors Dolph Zimmer, Busby Berkeley, Leslie H. Martinson
Writers George Wells, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, Harry Tugend

Cast

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)