Dizzy & Daffy

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Dizzy Dean and Paul 'Daffy' Dean in Dizzy & Daffy (1934)

A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals.A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals.A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals.

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5.9/10

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Dizzy Dean

Dizzy Dean
(as Jerome Dean)

Paul 'Daffy' Dean

Daffy Dean
(as Paul Dean)

Roscoe Ates

'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire

Shemp Howard

Lefty Howard

Richard Cramer

Nick, Farmers Baseball Team Manager
(as Dick Cramer)

Director
- Lloyd French
Writers
- Dolph Singer
- Jack Henley
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Trivia
Vitaphone Production Reels #1805-1806.

Quotes
[first lines]
Baseball Fan: [off-screen] Oh, boy, with Lefty Howard, Farmer White Sox are going to sew up the pennant in no time.

Soundtracks
The Gridiron
(uncredited)
Music by Arthur Willard Pryor
Played during the opening credits
Also played during the montage

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3/10

This is NOT the true story of Dizzy and Daffy Dean!

In the 1920s and 30s, Hollywood liked to try to make stars out of some of America's sports heroes. The most successful of these folks was Babe Ruth and he made a variety of films of mostly unimpressive quality. In addition, Jerome 'Dizzy' Dean and his brother, Paul 'Daffy' Dean, get a chance to appear in this film...mostly because Dizzy was one of the best pitchers of the 1930s and Daffy was terrific for his first couple seasons until he got injured. Dizzy went on to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame...Daffy, well, didn't.

This film portrays itself as a comic version of the Dean brothers and their rise to fame. Of course, it looks nothing like their real lives and the two ballplayers mostly seem out of place with the likes of Shemp Howard and Roscoe Ates milking it for laughs.

So is this any good? No. It's not all that funny and the film is pretty limp. HOWEVER, for baseball nuts it's a must-see picture, as you do get to see the Deans and you learn conclusively that they should have stuck strictly to baseball!!