DAMN YANKEES (1958) — Weary from the Washington Senators losing ways, a middle aged fan sells his soul to the devil (Ray Walston) and is transformed into youthful Joe Hardy (Tab Hunter), an MLB all star. Bases are loaded with tempting Lola (Gwen Verdon), the devil’s femme fatale who chirps it’s “your heart and soul I came for.”
Meanwhile the Senators find that “you’ve got to have heart” to win games. Hunter writes in his autobiography that the studio thought Verdon “wasn’t pretty enough” and they wanted to replace her with Marilyn Monroe or Mitzi Gaynor although she had won a Tony for Damn Yankees.
In the cable TV series “Fosse Verdon,” Michelle Williams and Sam Rockwell are outstanding in their creative partnership that resulted in Yankees and more. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051516/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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