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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790750156
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790750155
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 50336
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1949-04
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
'From the moment you picked up that grounder and threw it to third, I knew it was love.' Baseball and romance make a nifty double play in Take Me Out to the Ball Game, a bright bauble from the golden age of MGM musicals. The premise is a stretch: two members of a turn-of-the-century baseball team (Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra) are vaudeville performers in the off-season. Their ballclub is inherited by Esther Williams, causing much consternation among the boys and anticipating the plot line of Major League by 40 years.
Since swimming star Williams was always seen to best advantage dripping wet, the movie finds a way to get her into a hotel pool. Kelly, mugging mercilessly, executes an extended Irish solo dance (take that, Riverdance), and Sinatra, whose skinny frame is the source of many jokes in the script, is pursued by the irrepressible Betty Garrett and croons the ballad 'The Right Girl for Me.'
None of this is remotely plausible, and the Comden-Green songs don't stand the test of time, but the film is buoyant--and the period costumes and dazzling Technicolor are eye-popping. This was a reunion for Sinatra and Kelly after Anchors Aweigh (1945), and they would quickly team up again in the superior On the Town (1949), alongside Take Me Out costars Garrett and looming Jules Munshin. As in those films, Sinatra and Kelly dancing side-by- side are a delightful spectacle: Kelly effortlessly hitting his marks while Sinatra gamely tries to keep up. Take Me Out to the Ball Game was the last film directed by the legendary director-choreographer Busby Berkeley, who gets just one shot at a huge production number, a pseudo-Rodgers and Hammerstein tune, 'Strictly U.S.A.' Peanuts and Cracker Jack not included. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - unwatchable
"This DVD is copy protected and may only be played on licensed devices."
This DVD is unplayable, at least on a computer. I would have returned it as defective, except that Warner deliberately created it this way - from their point of view it is working perfectly. This ostensibly is related to piracy, however it instead proves that buying a legitimate copy is a complete waste of money. Or is the purpose to force people to buy standalone dvd players, plus in my case a new tv? I am never buying ... Read More
Rating:  - Great movie
The only one of the three Kelly-Sinatra musicals that I hadn't seen. Funny, good songs and dances. Esther only swims once but is good anyway. The baseball content is not too much for non-aficianandos.
Rating: - fine MGM musical despite a schmaltzy plot
Take Me Out To The Ball Game boasts number after number after number of incredible singing and dancing. We get Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly--two of the greatest dancers MGM ever had--along with a young Esther Williams and Betty Garrett to entertain with strength and panache.
The action begins about 100 years ago when the Wolves baseball team is taken over--by a woman! K. C. Higgins (Esther Williams) soon impresses the boys on the team with her knowledge of baseball and her good looks. The ... Read More
Rating: - Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1949
Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) and Gene Kelly (1912-1996) play ball in big way as 1900s Vaudevillians who spend the winter flinging the onstage blarney and the Summer flinging the ol?horsehide for Baseballs world champ , The Wolves . Sinatra is second sacker Dennis Ryan and Kelly is shortstop Eddie O?Brien in this Busby Berkeley (1895-1976) directed romp that conbines baseball with that other All-American pastime: Romance , Esther Williams (1922- ) plays the new team owner and Betty Garrett (1919- ) is ... Read More
Rating:  - fun fun fun!
Breezy, delightful musical with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra in their third and final screen partnership. This time, they play baseball players who moonlight as vaudeville stars. The boys get a pleasant shock with their new team manager (Esther Williams) who of course creates fireworks when both players decide to make a `play' for her! Curiously enough, renowned "Million Dollar Mermaid" Williams spends most of her time out of the water in this film, only doing one brief swimming bit to the Title ... Read More
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