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Geena Davisis still a Rockford Peach at heart.
The Academy Award winner, 66, reminisced with PEOPLE about filming 1992’sA League of Their Ownand working with the “incredible"Tom Hanksduring aCinespiascreening on Saturday for the film’s 30th anniversary.
She said it was “so great” filming with Hanks, 66, adding: “He’s so incredible. He has the reputation of being an incredible human being anyway. But he really is. He’s just a prince.”
Hanks played Jimmy Dugan, a once-great pro baseball player in his own right, who reluctantly takes on the team manager position for Dottie’s team Rockford Peaches.
Penny Marshall on the set ofA League of Their Own.John Biever/Columbia/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
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“She made an incredible movie,” Davis recalled. “My funniest memory of her is how much she ate hotdogs because on the set, they always had the hotdog cart, so she could just all day be availing herself of the hotdogs on the prop cart.”
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Over the years, Davis has kept in touch with her costars, noting thatAnne Ramsay, who played left-handed first base woman Helen Haley is a “very close friend of mine.”
“The girls and I are all still in contact and we still kind of remain a team,” Davis said.
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“So I realized only later that, wow, we were going to die, but it was better to them to not say anything that might have sounded rude to the people who are also going to die,” Davis recounts.
Davis' memoirDying of Politenessis available Oct. 11 fromHarperCollins.
source: people.com
