Damn Yankees

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Damn Yankees ★★★ What Lola Wants 1958

Musical feature adapted from the Broadway hit. A baseball fan frustrated by his team's lack of success makes a pact with the devil to become the team's new star. Verdon is dynamite as the devil's accomplice. Great Bob Fosse choreography. ♫Whatever Lola Wants; (You Gotta Have) Heart; Shoeless Joe From Hannibal Mo; Goodbye, Old Girl; A Little Brains, a Little Talent; Who's Got the Pain; Two Lost Souls; There's Something About an Empty Chair; Those Were the Good Old Days. 110m/C VHS, DVD . Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Tab Hunter, Jean Stapleton, Russ Brown; D: George Abbott, Stanley Donen.