It’s a little bit frustrating when looking up an actor to find that there’s not a lot of information on them, especially when what’s there doesn’t say much. Freddie Simpson was born Fredda Marie Simpson, but why she changed her name is hard to tell since again, there’s really not a lot there. But the fact that she’s enjoyed sports more than acting is kind of telling since her list of credits isn’t all that long and shows that she hasn’t been in anything substantial since about 2002. She hasn’t been idle since those days, however, as she’s been working
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- 1/3/2021
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
It's been 24 years since the ladies of A League of Their Own hit the field to play ball in the 1992 flick, and this weekend they got together to play again! Six members from the cast reunited on Sunday for the second annual League of Their Own reunion softball game hosted by the Bentonville Film Festival. The cast members that participated included: Tracy Reiner (Betty "Betty Spaghetti" Horn), Anne Ramsay (Helen Haley), Geena Davis (Dottie Hinson), Freddie Simpson (Ellen Sue Gotlander), Megan Cavanaugh (Marla Hooch) and Patti Pelton (Marbleann Wilkenson). The Bentonville Film Festival is a six-day event held in in Bentonville, Ark., and was co-founded by Davis. It focuses on empowering women and...
- 5/9/2016
- E! Online
The Bentonville Film Festival capped off its second annual event this past weekend with a softball game, featuring many members of a team that filmgoers know well: The Rockford Peaches from "A League of Their Own."
Arkansas Online reported that the Peaches reunion was spearheaded by Geena Davis, who played catcher Dottie Hinson in the 1992 flick about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Davis, who co-founded the film festival in 2015 to highlight female and diverse filmmakers, gathered her former castmates on Sunday at Arkansas's Arvest Ballpark for a spirited game to celebrate the festival's wrap -- and stir up some friendly competition, too.
Cast members from In A League of Their Own with Gina Casey, an original Peaches player kicking off the 2016 Reunion Game!
A photo posted by Bentonville Film Festival ❤️ (@bfffestival) on May 8, 2016 at 12:44pm Pdt
Aside from Davis, other Peaches teammates in attendance included actresses Patti Pelton...
Arkansas Online reported that the Peaches reunion was spearheaded by Geena Davis, who played catcher Dottie Hinson in the 1992 flick about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Davis, who co-founded the film festival in 2015 to highlight female and diverse filmmakers, gathered her former castmates on Sunday at Arkansas's Arvest Ballpark for a spirited game to celebrate the festival's wrap -- and stir up some friendly competition, too.
Cast members from In A League of Their Own with Gina Casey, an original Peaches player kicking off the 2016 Reunion Game!
A photo posted by Bentonville Film Festival ❤️ (@bfffestival) on May 8, 2016 at 12:44pm Pdt
Aside from Davis, other Peaches teammates in attendance included actresses Patti Pelton...
- 5/9/2016
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
There's no crying in baseball - unless, of course, they're tears of joy. The fictional Rockford Peaches of 1992 hit A League of Their Own reunited at the second annual Bentonville Film Festival on Sunday, gathering around the pitcher's mound at Arkansas' Arvest Ballpark nearly 25 years after the film's debut. The movie's star Geena Davis, who portrayed Dottie Hinson, watched her former castmates - Patti Pelton (Marbleann Wilkenson), Freddie Simpson (Ellen Sue Gotlander), Megan Cavanaugh (Marla Hooch), Anne Ramsay (Helen Haley) and Tracy Reiner (Betty Spaghetti) - play in a special softball game against former professional athletes like soccer star Cobi Jones,...
- 5/9/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
There's no crying in baseball - unless, of course, they're tears of joy. The fictional Rockford Peaches of 1992 hit A League of Their Own reunited at the second annual Bentonville Film Festival on Sunday, gathering around the pitcher's mound at Arkansas' Arvest Ballpark nearly 25 years after the film's debut. The movie's star Geena Davis, who portrayed Dottie Hinson, watched her former castmates - Patti Pelton (Marbleann Wilkenson), Freddie Simpson (Ellen Sue Gotlander), Megan Cavanaugh (Marla Hooch), Anne Ramsay (Helen Haley) and Tracy Reiner (Betty Spaghetti) - play in a special softball game against former professional athletes like soccer star Cobi Jones,...
- 5/9/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble, @lekimble
- PEOPLE.com
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