Damn Yankees (film) Quotes

Damn Yankees (film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Damn Yankees stopped airing in 1970.

It features George Abbott as producer, Richard Adler in charge of musical score, and Harold Lipstein as head of cinematography.

Damn Yankees (film) is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Shannon Bolin as Meg Boyd, Robert Shafer as Joe Boyd, Ray Walston as Mr. Applegate, Nathaniel Frey as Smokey, James Komack as Rocky, Russ Brown as Van Buren, Rae Allen as Gloria Thorpe, Gwen Verdon as Lola, and Tab Hunter as Joe Hardy.

Damn Yankees (film) Quotes

Shannon Bolin as Meg Boyd

• (Shannon Bolin) "Now, my friends Sister and Doris, they like baseball -- but they don't suffer so."

• (Shannon Bolin) "Is Washington winning dear?"
• (Robert Shafer) "Noooo. Those damn Yankees."

• (Shannon Bolin) "In Hannibal, they were always sayin' cool air was on its way from Canada."

Ray Walston as Mr. Applegate

• (Ray Walston) "You should have seen a real artist at work. You couldn't get him away from his wife, huh? Well I could."
• (Gwen Verdon) "How? Is he crazy about you?"

• (Ray Walston) "Well if you're referring to the rumor that in reality he is Shifty McCoy, I deny it emphatically."

• (Ray Walston) "I've got thousands of Washington fans drooling under the illusion that the Senators are going to win the pennant."
• (Gwen Verdon) "Aw Chief, that's awfully good. When they lose there'll be suicides and heart attacks and apoplexy -- just like the good old days."

• (Ray Walston) "I see it all now. Ya doped me. But why? Why?"
• (Gwen Verdon) "Because I love him."

• (Ray Walston) "Wives. They cause me more trouble than the Methodist church."

• (Ray Walston) "With my help a lot of things come easy."
• (Ray Walston) "Ohhhh, uh, do you smoke?"
• (Robert Shafer) "Hey -- how'd you pull that off?"
• (Ray Walston) "I'm handy with fire."

• (Ray Walston) "Have a nice trip?"
• (Gwen Verdon) "Perfect. The plane crashed in Cleveland."
• (Ray Walston) "Good. Now about that job in Chicago."
• (Gwen Verdon) "Just dandy. I got the old boy to embezzle 100,000 dollars and lost it for him at the race track. Then his wife left him and he took to drink. I told him I was through and he jumped out the window -- twenty second story."
• (Ray Walston) "That's high enough, that's fine."
• (Gwen Verdon) "I wanna try the Empire State Building on this next one."

• (Ray Walston) "Uh, if you will permit me to say a word, I happen to represent the Hannibal Bugle. And I'm telling you right now that everybody in our little ol' town is just as proud as pumpkins of little ol' Joe."
• (Rae Allen) "Well thank little ol' you, and thank little ol' Joe."

• (Ray Walston) "Going a little far don't you think?"
• (Gwen Verdon) "What's the matter? Didn't ya like it?"
• (Ray Walston) "I like it fine. Puff him up baby, I'll bring him down again."
• (Gwen Verdon) "You'll what?"
• (Ray Walston) "It's already started. Keep your eyes open, homewrecker. You'll find out who's got the pain in the mambo."

• (Ray Walston) "Oh, don't be so nosey, huh? Go home. Get married. Have children."

• (Ray Walston) "I've got too much on my mind. I'm overworked."
• (Gwen Verdon) "Oh, I know, poor dear. Elections coming up."

Robert Shafer as Joe Boyd

• (Robert Shafer) "What happens after I stop being a baseball player? Then where would I be?"
• (Ray Walston) "Well now, of course that's fairly well known."
• (Robert Shafer) "Yes, but I have --"
• (Ray Walston) "After all, there's nothing unusual about it. How do you suppose some of these politicians around town got started? And parking lot owners?"

Gwen Verdon as Lola

• (Gwen Verdon) "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets / And little man, little Lola wants you."

• (Gwen Verdon) "I took the zing out of the King of Siam. / I took the starch out of the sails of the Prince of Wales. / It's no great art gettin' the heart of a man on a silver platter. / A little brains, a little talent with an emphasis on the latter."

James Komack as Rocky

• (James Komack) "It's not that I'm dumb, Benny."
• (Russ Brown) "Nobody said anything about your being dumb -- exactly."

Rae Allen as Gloria Thorpe

• (Unnamed) "Do you think Washington will win the pennant?"
• (Rae Allen) "Yeah, when I swim the Channel."

• (Rae Allen) "Wait a minute, I got it. Shoeless Joe Hardy."

Russ Brown as Van Buren

• (Russ Brown) "We didn't invite the press this morning, Gloria."
• (Rae Allen) "Aw Benny, you're very foolish to have this prejudice against me just because I'm a woman. My paper gives you as much space as the others do."
• (Russ Brown) "I only wondered why you got here so early."
• (Rae Allen) "I came down to see the naked men."

Nathaniel Frey as Smokey

• (Nathaniel Frey) "Hey Linvy, what's a three letter word for "a sticky substance"?"
• (Nathaniel Frey) "Spit? No, that's four."

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