# The Babe

    For other uses, see Babe.
The Babe is a 1992 biographical film about the life of famed baseball player Babe Ruth.
    Written by John Fusco, directed by Arthur Hiller.

## Johnny Sylvester

* You are the best, you are the best there's ever been.

## Harry Frazee

* Half of everything I own just went down the drain with the "Gladiators of Broadway." The other half is in the pocket of The Sultan of Swat, and he wants a raise and his own suites during road games.

## Dialogue

    Helen Woodford Ruth: Let me tell you something. I'm not on the dark of it anymore. The only thing I don't understand now was why they ever let you out because you are incorrigible. [shocked at Helen's revelation, Babe Ruth loses his temper and shoves the food cart before flipping the bowl in her face] That's it, it's over.
    Babe Ruth: Come on, kid. Don't say that. Let's have a rib and forget about this. You're right, I've been bad.
    Helen Woodford Ruth: No! I am through, George!
    Babe Ruth: Helen, give me a chance. We'll let waysides be waysides. Don't leave me like this, all right?
    Helen Woodford Ruth: I am through with chances, George. I'm through with us. I'm taking Dorothy back to Boston and I'm filing for divorce.

## Tagline

* There Was Only One.

## Quotes about the film

* Apart from being a bad film in the first place, aside from being superficially written, aside from being shot with little sense of time or place, the movie portrays Babe Ruth as a man almost completely lacking in the ability to have, or to provide, happiness. Spending these 115 minutes with the Babe is a little like being jammed into the window seat on a long-distance bus, next to a big guy with beer and cigars on his breath and nothing to talk about but his next meal and his last broad.
** Roger Ebert, "The Babe," RogerEbert.com (17 April 1992).
* Less a biography than a baseball movie, "The Babe" is a muddy field of dreams fertilized with a whole lot of Bull Durham. Loosely based on George Herman Ruth's life, this shallow, soap-operatic treatment makes the man fit the myth. And bigger-than-life or not, he rattles around inside there like the prize in a Cracker Jack box.
** Rita Kempley, "The Babe," Washington Post (17 April 1992).

## Cast

* John Goodman – Babe Ruth
* Kelly McGillis – Claire Hodgson Ruth
* Trini Alvarado – Helen Woodford Ruth
* Bruce Boxleitner – Jumpin' Joe Dugan
* Peter Donat – Harry Frazee, Red Sox owner
* James Cromwell – Brother Mathias
* J.C. Quinn – Jack Dunn
* Joe Ragno – Miller Huggins
* Richard Tyson – Guy Bush
* Ralph Marrero – Ping Bodie
* Bob Swan – George Herman Ruth Sr.
* Bernard Kates – Colonel Jacob Ruppert
* Michael McGrady – Lou Gehrig
* Danny Goldring – Bill Carrigan
* Guy Barile – Johnny Torrio
* Bernie Gigliotti – Al Capone
* Ian McCabe – kid who fails math test
* W. Earl Brown – Herb Pennock
* Thom C. Simmons – Bill McKechnie
* Rick Reardon – Ernie Shore
* Randy Steinmeyer – Ty Cobb
* Wayne Messmer – Yankee Stadium announcer
* Larry Cedar – Forbes Field announcer
* Michael Kendall – Jack Warhop
* Harry Hutchinson – Tris Speaker
* Irma P. Hall – Fanny Baily
* Stephen Caffrey – Older Johnny

## External links

* The Babe quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* The Babe at Allmovie