Damn Yankees! (1967 film)
Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the baseball musical Damn Yankees.
| Damn Yankees! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy Musical Sport |
| Written by | George Abbott (book) Douglass Wallop (book) |
| Directed by | Kirk Browning |
| Starring | Phil Silvers Lee Remick Jerry Lanning |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Alvin Cooperman |
| Producer | Robert Wright (associate producer) |
| Production location | NBC Brooklyn Studios |
| Editor | Jack Shultis |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Production company | NBC |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | April 8, 1967 |
Longtime sportscaster and NBC host Joe Garagiola supplied an on-camera set-up to the background for the story’s premise of envy of the successful New York Yankees team.
The pop-art production design and staging featured collage animation and early examples of color Chroma key compositing to achieve traveling mattes for TV.
It was recorded at NBC's Brooklyn Studios and “colorcast“ on 8 April 1967 as a production of a relaunched ”G.E. Theater” which ran from late 60s into early 70s.
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