With Baseball season underway, I do enjoy watching baseball movies!
My all-time favorite baseball movie is probably "It Happens Every Spring," a 1949 film from Twentieth Century-Fox starring Ray Milland as a chemistry professor who becomes star baseball pitcher!
It's just a very entertaining movie that hits all the right notes!
I think Paul Douglas steals the movie as Milland's catcher in only his second featured movie role, following "A Letter to Three Wives" from earlier in 1949.
He mentions the earlier film as he introduces this fun trailer for "It Happens Every Spring":
You'll notice that Paul Douglas also references his time as a radio announcer and we had heard him in that role on "A Modern Scrooge" from "Treasury Star Parade" in 1942!
Also in the movie's cast is Ray Collins, who had worked with Orson Welles on the radio, including both Campbell Playhouse broadcasts of "A Christmas Carol" in 1938 and 1939. Ray ultimately found his greatest fame as Lt. Tragg opposite Raymond Burr on the popular "Perry Mason" TV show.
So, yes my fancy turns to baseball movies - it does indeed happen every Spring!
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