Damn Yankees! (1967 film)

Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the baseball musical Damn Yankees.

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.

Cast

 * Lee Remick as Lola
 * Phil Silvers as Applegate
 * Jim Backus as Benny Van Buren
 * Fran Allison as Mrs. Meg Boyd
 * Jerry Lanning as Joe Hardy
 * Ray Middleton as Joe Boyd
 * Linda Lavin as Gloria Thorpe
 * Bob Dishy as Rocky

Note: All the principal cast were singers, so they could all supply their own vocals for the soundtrack without being dubbed.