Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
- sports
- baseball
- world war ii
- baseball player
- female athlete
- home front
- woman director
- 1940s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Rosie O'Donnell — Doris Murphy (3B)
- Megan Cavanagh — Marla Hooch (2B)
- Tracy Reiner — Betty Horn (LF/P)
- Bitty Schram — Evelyn Gardner (RF)
- Ann Cusack — Shirley Baker (LF)
- Anne Ramsay — Helen Haley (1B)
- Freddie Simpson — Ellen Sue Gotlander (SS/P)
- Renée Coleman — Alice Gaspers (LF/C)
- Robin Knight — 'Beans' Babbitt (SS)
- Patti Pelton — Marbleann Wilkenson (2B)
- Kelli Simpkins — Beverly Dixon (OF)
- Directed
- Penny Marshall
- Written
- Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Kim Wilson, Kelly Candaele
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 1,560 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Parkway Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
