Damn Yankees (retitled What Lola Wants in the United Kingdom) is a 1958 musical sports romantic comedy film directed by George Abbott and Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Abbott adapted from his and Douglass Wallop's book of the 1955 musical of the same name, itself based on the 1954 novel "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant" by Wallop. The story is a modern take on the Faust legend involving the New York Yankees and Washington Senators baseball teams. With the exception of Tab Hunter in the role of Joe Hardy (replacing Stephen Douglass), the Broadway principals reprised their stage roles, including Gwen Verdon as Lola.