A League of Their Own

…her teammates inspired the film A League of Their Own (1992).

In 1992 the feature film A League of Their Own dramatized the story of the AAGPBL.

…of Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe; and A League of Their Own (1992), the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Two notable documentary films appeared in the 1990s: When It Was a Game (1991) is an intimate portrait of ballplayers and fans from the 1930s through the 1950s, and Ken…

…Dottie Hinson in Penny Marshall’s A League of Their Own (1992). Davis’s subsequent movies were generally less significant. She starred in the 2000–01 TV sitcom The Geena Davis Show and as President Mackenzie Allen in the 2005–06 TV drama Commander in Chief, for which she won a 2006 Golden Globe…

…baseball team in the comedy A League of Their Own (1992) and delivered an Oscar-winning performance as a gay lawyer with AIDS in Philadelphia (1993). Another Academy Award, for the phenomenally popular Forrest Gump (1994), made him the first actor to win back-to-back best actor Oscars since Spencer Tracy.

…boundary-breaking Blonde Ambition tour, and A League of Their Own (1992). Truth or Dare, in particular, came to be regarded as a seminal music documentary for its honest depiction of life on tour and of Madonna’s maternal relationship with her gay backup dancers. She scored massive success in 1996 with…

…made her film debut in A League of Their Own, a comedy about a women’s baseball league in the early 1940s. Commonly cast as the comic sidekick or best friend, she appeared in such films as Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Another Stakeout (1993), and The Flintstones (1994), the movie version…