Penny Marshall’s 1992 sports dramedy “A League of Their Own” was beloved from the jump.
Set largely in the 1940s, “A League of Their Own” tells a fictionalized version of the founding of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and that league’s most successful team, the Rockford Peaches.
(Note that this was a time when grown women were actively called girls.) The broad history of the league is accurate, but none of the characters in Marshall’s film are based on real people. Geena Davis played Dottie Hinson, the team’s catcher and most capable player.
Dottie also served as the team’s manager as the original coach the…The post How A League Of Their Own Changed Geena Davis Life appeared first on /Film.
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