Story Notes for A League of Their Own
In 1988.Madonna began her career as a backup dancer and trained in ballet and modern dance.
Growing up, Geena Davis and David Strathairn acted together at summer theater. Davis says, "He was the star."
David Lander knows his baseball. He was once a scout for the Major Leagues.
Petty has great form. She was the only girl on a boys' team growing up.
Tom Hanks and Bill Pullman worked together again in 1993 in Sleepless in Seattle .
Ron Howard's father played Kit and Dottie's dad.
The conductor was director Penny Marshall's masseuse. He's also been Alec Baldwin's double.
Megan Cavanagh had never been on camera before this movie. She learned to switch hit for the role, something only 6% of major league players do.
Director Marshall wanted to cast fresh faces. This was Rosie O'Donnell's first movie. Madonna wasn't unknown, but Marshall needed a dancer, so she cast the pop star last minute.
Tom Hanks asked Marshall, who directed him to an Oscar nomination in Big Walter Harvey is based on Phil Wrigley, owner of Wrigley's gum and the Chicago Cubs.
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League existed from 1943 to 1954.
The real Wrigley hired cosmetic mogul Helena Rubenstein to run a charm school for the players.
In real life, Arthur Meyerhoff bought the league from Wrigley and ran it until it ended in 1954.
Approximately 220 American servicemen died every day during World War II.
The Rockford Peaches actually had a losing record their 1st season.
Don't worry. The Rockford Peaches won 4 championships in the 12 years the league existed.
After the summer seasons, players would go back to their hometowns and regular jobs for the off-season.
The Baseball Hall of Fame opened an exhibit on women's baseball on November 5, 1988.
Location Notes Lori Petty says she relates to her character Kit because Petty was "new to movie making." Petty says she was just trying to hold her own working with Oscar-winner Geena Davis.
On the set, Davis says she wanted to take Petty "under my wing... and be the big sister."
Tracy Reiner says they went out with the former players and "they can out-drink Madonna."
Hanks says it was a male fantasy to "have all my teammates be a bunch of chicks."
Marshall says that this was the "best time she had working on a movie.
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I began Ballet Shoes with a lot of skepticism, expecting a cheesy ABC Family film whose only draw was Emma Watson. Though it is not a cinematic masterpiece, this movie manages to tell an interesting story of three orphans who find their place in the arts. I appreciated the fact that the story focused on a classical repertoire of music and dance instead of a modern one (as 95% of recent movies do when involving the arts). There was some interesting character development amidst the three girls, as their successes and failures shaped who they are. Watson proves that she has a future beyond Harry Potter through a few effective emotional moments. Surprisingly, the low point of this movie for me was the adults, whose characters were static and forgettable. The ending was a bit abrupt and not entirely satisfying as little was resolved or explained but overall, I recommend this as a nice family film.
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