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Verdon received a total of four Tonys, for best featured actress for Can-Can (1953) and best leading actress for Damn Yankees (1955), New Girl in Town (1957) and Redhead (1959). She also won a Grammy Award for the cast recording of Redhead. Verdon was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981.
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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Box office. $2.6 million [2] 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 ...
- George Abbott
- George Abbott (play), Douglass Wallop (play & novel)
Cast Gwen Verdon, Tab Hunter. A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the pennant. Gwen Verdon is a total delight as Lola, the temptress used by the devil (Ray Walston) to lure Joe Hardy (Tab Hunter) from going back to his wife & breaking his satanic deal in which middle ...
Damn Yankees is a 1955 musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend [1] set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball.