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  1. Damn Yankees (retitled What Lola Wants in the United Kingdom) is a 1958 American widescreen musical sports romantic comedy film. It was directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Abbott, adapted from his and Douglass Wallop's book of the 1955 musical of the same name, itself based on the 1954 novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Wallop.

    • George Abbott
  2. Damn Yankees: Directed by George Abbott, Stanley Donen. With Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown. A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant.

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    • Comedy, Musical, Romance
    • George Abbott, Stanley Donen
    • 1958-12-28
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  4. Film Details. Based on the musical Damn Yankees , book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, produced by Frederick Brisson, Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince (New York, 5 May 1955), which was based on the novel The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant by Douglass Wallop (New York, 1954).

    • George Abbott
    • Tab Hunter
  5. Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Applegate (Ray Walston), who offers to turn Boyd into Joe ...

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    • Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston
    • George Abbott, Stanley Donen
    • Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
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  7. Film adaptation of the George Abbott Broadway musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the Devil to help his baseball team win the league pennant. George Abbott. Director, Screenplay.

  8. Damn Yankees is a frothy, faithful adaptation of the 1956 Broadway hit. In an amusing slant on the "Faust" legend, aging baseball fan Joe Boyd (Robert Schafer) is given an opportunity to lead his beloved Washington Senators to victory by a devilish gent named Applegate (Ray Walston).

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