Director Penny Marshall drafted Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna and other all-stars for a 1940s-set women’s baseball pic that became a box office champ.
Director Penny Marshall, coming off of, had watched a PBS documentary about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which launched in the 1940s, and sent the doc to Lowell Ganz, co-creator of her sitcomand a baseball fanatic.
With her Fox deal expired, Marshall made it clear to interested studios thatpraised the film as a “scruffy charmer.” Amazon is set to bring a new ‘League’ series to bat on Aug. 12.“I don’t know how enthusiastic all the studios were about doing a movie about women’s baseball, but they were very enthusiastic about Penny,” Ganz, who co-wrote the film with Babaloo Mandel, tells