A League of Their Own

Resource Information

The work A League of Their Own represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

A League of Their Own

Statement of responsibility

Columbia Pictures presents a Parkway production ; a Penny Marshall film ; screenplay by Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel ; produced by Robert Greenhut and Elliot Abbott ; directed by Penny Marshall

Creator

• League of their own (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Strathairn, David
• Schram, Bitty
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
• Parkway Productions
• Abbott, Elliot
• Bowers, George
• Cavanagh, Megan, 1960-
• Coleman, Renée
• Cusack, Ann, 1961-
• Davis, Don S., (Don Sinclair)
• Davis, Geena
• Flynt, Cynthia
• Ganz, Lowell, 1948-
• Zimmer, Hans
• Greenhut, Robert
• Groom, Bill
• Hanks, Tom
• Jones, Eddie, 1940-2019
• Lovitz, Jon
• Madonna, 1958-
• Mandel, Babaloo
• Marshall, Garry
• Marshall, Penny
• O'Donnell, Rosie
• Ondříček, Miroslav, 1934-2015
• Petty, Lori
• Pullman, Bill
• Ramsay, Anne, 1960-
• Reiner, Tracy, 1964-
• Columbia Pictures
• Simpson, Freddie

Actor

• Strathairn, David
• Simpson, Freddie
• Schram, Bitty
• Reiner, Tracy, 1964-
• Ramsay, Anne, 1960-
• Pullman, Bill
• Petty, Lori
• O'Donnell, Rosie
• Cusack, Ann, 1961-
• Coleman, Renée
• Marshall, Garry
• Madonna, 1958-
• Lovitz, Jon
• Jones, Eddie, 1940-2019
• Hanks, Tom
• Cavanagh, Megan, 1960-
• Davis, Geena
• Davis, Don S., (Don Sinclair)

Composer

• Zimmer, Hans

Costume designer

• Flynt, Cynthia

Director of photography

• Ondříček, Miroslav, 1934-2015

Editor of moving image work

• Bowers, George

Film director

• Marshall, Penny

Film distributor

• Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)

Film producer

• Abbott, Elliot
• Greenhut, Robert
• Marshall, Penny

Presenter

• Columbia Pictures

Production company

• Parkway Productions

Production designer

• Groom, Bill

Screenwriter

• Mandel, Babaloo
• Ganz, Lowell, 1948-

Subject

• Women baseball players
• Sports films
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama
• Comedy films
• Comedy films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Baseball films
• Women baseball players -- Drama
• All-American Girls Professional Baseball League -- Drama
• Sports films
• All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• Fiction films
• Feature films -- United States
• Feature films

Genre

• Baseball films
• Sports films
• Comedy films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• kor
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story

Awards note

Named to the National Film Registry in 2012 by the Library of Congress

Cataloging source

IEU

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Miroslav Ondricek ; editor, George Bowers ; music, Hans Zimmer ; story, Kim Wilson, Kelly Candaele ; costume design by Cynthia Flynt ; production design by Bill Groom

Dewey number

791.4372

Intended audience

Rated PG

Language note

In English or dubbed Spanish or French with optional subtitles in Spanish and Korean

LC call number

• PN1995.9.F35
• PN1997

LC item number

• L434 1997
• .L434 1997

NLM call number

51229

NLM item number

Columbia Tristar Home Video

PerformerNote

Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty, Rosie O'Donnell, Jon Lovitz, David Strathairn, Garry Marshall, Bill Pullman, Megan Cavanagh, Tracy Reiner, Bitty Schram, Don Davis, Renee Coleman, Ann Cusack, Eddie Jones, Freddie Simpson, Ann Elizabeth Ramsay

Runtime

127

Target audience

general

Technique

live action