Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field is a sports stadium in Chicago, Illinois which was built in 1914 for the Chicago Federal League baseball team, the Chicago Whales and which became the home of the Chicago Cubs in 1916. It was also the home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League from 1921-1970.

Silver Screen

As indicated earlier, Wrigley Field had a brief cameo in the movie The Blues Brothers (1980) starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Jake and Elwood Blues. Elwood lists 1060 W. Addison as his fake home address on his Illinois driver's license.

Related Topics:
The Blues Brothers - 1980 - John Belushi - Dan Aykroyd

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The ballpark was featured in a scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), starring Matthew Broderick.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 1986 - Matthew Broderick

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An early 1990s film about Babe Ruth had the obligatory scene in Wrigley Field about the "called shot". A scoreboard similar to the one existing in 1932 was used, atop the ivy wall which of course did not exist until later in the decade.

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Babe Ruth - 1932

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The Natural (1984), starring Robert Redford, had a scene set at Wrigley but it was actually filmed at All High Stadium in Buffalo, New York. The other baseball scenes in that movie were also shot in Buffalo, at the since-demolished War Memorial Stadium.

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The Natural - 1984 - Robert Redford - All High Stadium - Buffalo, New York - War Memorial Stadium

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Wrigley Field was also used for a lengthy establishing scene in A League of Their Own (1992), a Hollywood account of the women's baseball league which the eccentric but visionary Cubs owner P.K. Wrigley had, in fact, championed during World War II. Garry Marshall (older brother of the film's director Penny Marshall) has a cameo as "Walter Harvey", P.K.'s fictional alter ego. The big sign behind Wrigley Field's scoreboard was redone to read "Harvey Field".

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A League of Their Own - 1992 - World War II - Garry Marshall - Penny Marshall

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