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The Pride of the Yankees: Directed by Sam Wood. With Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan. The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.
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- Biography, Drama, Romance
- Sam Wood
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The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American sports drama film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. It is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died a year before its release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which later ...
The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.
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In Chicago, Lou meets Eleanor Twitchell, the daughter of a wealthy hot dog manufacturer, and is smitten when she playfully dubs him "Tanglefoot" after he trips on some bats. When the team next travels to Chicago, Lou asks Eleanor out and soon the two fall in love.
- Sam Wood, John Sherwood
- Gary Cooper
Championed by sportswriter Sam Blake (Walter Brennan), Gehrig eventually gets recruited by the New York Yankees, joining a team of heavy hitters that includes the legendary Babe Ruth.
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- Biography
The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig. Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name.
