Take Me Out to the Ball Game
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
-- Genial musical comedy about a turn-of-the-century baseball club whose new owner is a woman (Esther Williams), despite which the team heads for the World Series until its star shortstop (Gene Kelly) gets sidetracked by a crafty gambler (Edward Arnold). Director Busby Berkeley combines the colorful period setting with some zestful song-and-dance numbers in dressing up a romantic plot pairing Kelly with Williams and infielder Frank Sinatra with assertive showgirl Betty Garnett. Smoothly contrived, easy-to-take family fare. (A-I) (br)
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1949
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.