It Happens Every Spring Lobby Card 11x14 USA Original 1949 Baseball
USA Lobby Card 11x14.It Happens Every Spring is a 1949 American baseball comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Ray Milland, Jean Peters and Paul Douglas. The storyline went as follows:A college professor is working on a long-term scientific experiment when a baseball comes through the window, destroying all of his glassware and spilling the fluids that the flasks and test tubes contained. The pooled fluids combine to form the chemical "methylethylpropylbutyl," which then covers a large portion of the baseball. The professor soon discovers that the fluid, along with any object with which it makes contact, is repelled by wood (cf. Alexander Fleming's serendipitous discovery of penicillin).Suddenly, he realizes the possibilities and takes a leave of absence to go to St. Louis to pitch in the big leagues, where he becomes a star and propels his team to the World Series.Film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film three and a half stars, calling it “a most enjoyable, unpretentious picture”.
