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  • Rosie O'Donnell Would Sing Madonna Songs On Set To Annoy Her on Random Behind-The-Scenes Stories From ‘A League of Their Own,’ Most Rewatchable Sports Movi

    (#11) Rosie O'Donnell Would Sing Madonna Songs On Set To Annoy Her

    O'Donnell did not seem to be intimidated by Madonna's fame. There was a lot of downtime during filming, and O'Donnell would often fill the lulls by singing Madonna songs. According to Megan Cavanagh:

    Madonna would get so mad and swear at her... and that was part of their friendship. Rosie was not afraid of Madonna. She did what she wanted to do, and I think Madonna loved that. Rosie would sing all of "Holiday," and Madonna would get mad at her and say, "Don't ever sing one of my songs again." And the next day, she'd come out and sing "Vogue." It was so fun to watch her do that.

    Years after the film was released, O'Donnell had Marshall come on her television talk show. During that interview, O'Donnell remembered how, before she ever met Madonna, she had gone to see Truth or Dare with her boyfriend (this was during what O'Donnell called her "brief heterosexual period"). When her boyfriend speculated that O'Donnell and Madonna would be friends if they ever met, O'Donnell dismissed the chances of her ever meeting the singer.

    Two days later, she learned that Marshall wanted to cast Madonna to play the part of the best friend to O'Donnell's character. 

  • The Auditions Were Actual Baseball Tryouts And Many Prominent Actors Didn't Get Cast Because Of Their Inability To Be Believable As A Player on Random Behind-The-Scenes Stories From ‘A League of Their Own,’ Most Rewatchable Sports Movi

    (#3) The Auditions Were Actual Baseball Tryouts And Many Prominent Actors Didn't Get Cast Because Of Their Inability To Be Believable As A Player

    In 2017, Robert Greenhut, who was one of the producers on A League of Their Own, told ESPNW that the film was difficult to cast because they were looking for actors who could play baseball. While it might look easy when watching a game on television, the producer admitted, "We all quickly learned how hard it is to throw from first base to third to get somebody out."

    Director Penny Marshall told MLB.com, "There was a big tryout where [the actors] were judged on running, catching, hitting. Throwing is always the hardest for girls because they throw differently. But I would not [audition]... actresses unless they could play ball or were trainable." Reminiscing about the film with Rosie O'Donnell on the latter's television talk show, the director said that there were several good actors who didn't get cast because they couldn't play. One, Marshall remembered, showed up to the tryout wearing ballet slippers.

    Marshall's daughter Tracy Reiner, who ended up being cast as outfielder Betty "Spaghetti" Horn, went to the open tryouts with one of her cousins, even though she had stitches in her mouth from recently getting her wisdom teeth removed. "There were about 2,000 girls auditioning at USC with [former USC baseball coach] Rod Dedeaux, and his coaches and trainers were going to evaluate the girls to see if you were trainable," Reiner recalled to ESPNW. Dedeaux was impressed with Reiner's arm, but she ended up spitting blood because she had popped the stitches in her mouth. When she returned home, she thought her mom would like that Reiner and her cousin had gone to the big casting call. Instead, Marshall's reaction was "[How'd] you two [end up] testing in the Top 20 girls?"

    Geena Davis's audition for the role of catcher Dottie Hinson took place in the director's backyard. "[Marshall] wanted to make sure I could throw a ball, so that happened," Davis told USA Today in 2017. "I threw the ball to her, competently got it to her, she caught it and said, 'OK.' That was the whole audition." However, the actor, who wasn't an athlete growing up, trained rigorously and ended up impressing the actual baseball coaches on the set with her play. "When the coaches would say, 'You have real untapped athletic ability,' it was like, 'Oh, my god, I am coordinated.'" Davis later took up archery and even competed in the US Olympic Trials in 1999.

    Lori Petty claimed that she auditioned eight times for the part of Dottie's younger sister, pitcher Kit Keller. "Every woman in Hollywood was reading for this movie," Petty told The Ringer in 2017. "It was a strong female movie, which, you know, we don’t have now, and we didn’t have in 1991 either. I mean, Marla Maples auditioned, for Christ’s sake. Everyone."

    Among the actors who did make it through the tryouts were Téa Leoni and Janet Jones, both of whom were cast in bit parts as players on the Racine Belles.

  • Jon Lovitz on Random Behind-The-Scenes Stories From ‘A League of Their Own,’ Most Rewatchable Sports Movi

    (#17) Jon Lovitz

    Lovitz plays the sarcastic scout who recruits many of the various players. When he starts to leave after taking Dottie, Kit, and Marla to the tryouts, he tells them he will be going home to give his wife a "little pickle tickle," a line that was reportedly ad-libbed by the actor.

    Lovitz's part was originally larger. One of the scenes Marshall ended up cutting from the film involved Lovitz giving a monologue that references Babe Ruth and calls a hot dog a "meat rocket." When Lovitz protested to the director that she should keep the scene in the film, Marshall responded, "You're in the film just enough."

  • Tom Hanks on Random Behind-The-Scenes Stories From ‘A League of Their Own,’ Most Rewatchable Sports Movi

    (#5) Tom Hanks

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    In 2012, Penny Marshall told an audience at the Hudson Union Society that Tom Hanks asked to play the part of Jimmy Dugan, the heavy-drinking former MLB star turned reluctant manager of the Rockford Peaches. At the time, Hanks was coming off of two flop films, The 'Burbs and Joe Versus the Volcano.

    Dugan was originally supposed to be a man in his 50s, but Hanks reportedly talked Marshall into making the character younger. The director was worried that a younger Dugan would be too appealing to the audience, so as a compromise Hanks packed on about 30 pounds to make the character more slovenly. "I had to get fat. I had to gain some weight," the actor told Entertainment Tonight in 1992. "I had BBQ pork ribs and enjoyed the desserts of America."

  • Penny Marshall on Random Behind-The-Scenes Stories From ‘A League of Their Own,’ Most Rewatchable Sports Movi

    (#13) Penny Marshall

    There is a definite attraction between Dottie and Jimmy in A League of Their Own, although they never act on it. In 2017, Megan Cavanagh recalled that a scene in which the characters kiss got cut from the finished film because "it was very upsetting to the real women players, apparently. Davis's character was married, and it upset the [former AAGPBL] players that she would kiss another man while her husband was at war."

    Another scene that got deleted was one where Dottie revealed that she married her husband Bob the night he got drafted.

  • Several Of The Characters Were Directly Based On Real People on Random Behind-The-Scenes Stories From ‘A League of Their Own,’ Most Rewatchable Sports Movi

    (#4) Several Of The Characters Were Directly Based On Real People

    The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was a real league that existed from 1943 to 1954. So it's not a surprise that several of the characters were based on or inspired by real people. 

    Davis's character Dottie Hinson was inspired by Dorothy "Dottie" Kamenshek, who played for the real Rockford Peaches, although she was a left-handed-hitting first baseman, while Davis's Dottie batted right-handed and was a catcher. While the fictional Dottie retired after one season, Kamenshek was a seven-time All-Star and two-time batting champion, and holds the AAGPBL's record for career hits.

    Tom Hanks's character, Jimmy Dugan, was based on baseball Hall of Famers Jimmie Foxx and Hack Wilson, both of whom had their careers shortened at least in part because of their heavy drinking. After his playing career ended, Foxx spent one season (1952) as a manager of the AAGPBL's Fort Wayne Daisies.

    The part of Walter Harvey (played by Garry Marshall), the league founder/candy manufacturer, was based on the man who founded the real AAGPBL: the Chicago Cubs owner/chewing gum manufacturer, Philip K. Wrigley.

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The movie, A League of Their Own is a famous comedy sports movie at the end of the 20th century, released in 1992. It tells a story that happened after the baseball king Walter Harvey formed the Women's Baseball League after World War II. This film is adapted from real events. It is a sports inspirational film describing the women's baseball team. It is also one of the early representative works of Oscar actor Tom Hanks, the sexy singer Madonna also played a role in the film.

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