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It Happens Every Spring (1949)

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Lloyd Bacon's baseball comedy stars Ray Milland as Vernon Simpson, a chemist who develops a product which repels wood. Signing on with a major league team as a pitcher, he throws screwballs doctored with his solution, becoming a sensation who strikes out every batter he faces. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi

Unrated, 1 hr. 27 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Lloyd Bacon

Written By: Valentine Davies

Cast

Ray Milland
Vernon Simpson
Jean Peters
Deborah Greenleaf
Paul Douglas
Monk Lanigan
Ed Begley Sr.
Sfone
Ted de Corsia
Dolan
Ray Collins
Prof. Greenleaf
Jesse Royce Landis
Mrs. Greenleaf
Alan Hale Jr.
Schmidt
Bill Murphy
Isbell
William E. Green
Prof. Forsythe
Edward Keane
Bell
Gene Evans
Mueller
Al Eben
Parker
Ruth Lee
Miss Collins
John K. Butler
Fan
Ray Teal
Mac
Grandon Rhodes
Professor
Mickey Simpson
Policeman
Johnny Calkins
Boy
Harry V. Cheshire
Doctor
Harry Seymour
Clerk
Robert B. Williams
Reporter
Charles Flynn
Reporter
Tom Hanlon
St. Louis Broadcaster
Sam Hayes
New York Announcer
Don Hicks
Assistant to Announcer
Mae Marsh
Maid
Debra Paget
Alice
Robert Patten
Cab Driver
Douglas Spencer
Conductor
Pat Combs
Messenger Boy
John R. McKee
Baseball Player

Critic Reviews for It Happens Every Spring

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Excellent baseball comedy about a scientist who perfects a pitching potion

June 21, 2005 Comment

Daniel Eagan

Film Journal International

Pleasant baseball comedy with top-flight cast.

March 1, 2004 Comment

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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A classic movie for baseball fans. "It Happens Every Spring" is classic movie that baseball fans would love. It about a Professor (Ray Milland) that invents a lotion that repels wood. He puts on the baseballs and the balls repels the wood bats. With the lotion, He becomes a World Series pitcher for St. Louis baseball

February 17, 2007

Julie Buse

While this movie is cute it has a pro Jim Crow message that today's audience will largely miss. Jackie Robinson integrated baseball in 1947 and this movie came out in 1949. The main character in the movie joins the The St. Louis Cardinals who in real life had strongly opposed integrating baseball and had tried to

December 28, 2011

Mark Davis

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