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Overview. The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig. Sam Wood. Director. Herman J. Mankiewicz. Screenplay. Jo Swerling. Screenplay.
While in college, Lou (played as a man by Gary Cooper) becomes a star athlete, and, with the help of sports journalist Sam Blake (Walter Brennan), he is signed by the New York Yankees and joins their big-league lineup in 1925; real-life Yanks Babe Ruth, Bill Dickey, Bob Meusel and Mark Koenig play themselves.
While in college, Lou becomes a star athlete, and, with the help of sports journalist Sam Blake (Walter Brennan), he is signed by the New York Yankees and joins their big-league lineup in 1925; real-life Yanks Babe Ruth, Bill Dickey, Bob Meusel and Mark Koenig play themselves.
Mar 18, 2008 · The Pride of the Yankees is the true story of "Iron Horse" Lou Gehrig, who was given his nickname of the "Iron Horse" because he played 2,130 consecutive games, never missing, always giving all that he had to his team and his trade. Wow! He is definitely a super hero, strong in character and well worthy of his fame, loyal and true, a rock.
Review by theriverjordan ★★★½ 35. “Pride of the Yankees” is a film less enamored with baseball than it is in adoration of its own American myth making. Released just 17 months after the death of Lou Gehrig, from a disease that would come to be named after him, “Pride” is emblematic less of its subject’s sport’s team, than it ...
Jun 13, 2017 · The Pride of the Yankees recalls a lost world, when Hollywood had the power to create dreams that people wanted to believe."― Julie Salamon, author of The Devil's Candy and Wendy and the Lost Boys "More than the story of a movie or even an era of baseball, Richard Sandomir's brilliantly reported book transports us back to an age of real ...
- Richard Sandomir
The Pride of the Yankees. The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American biographical drama movie directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan, Babe Ruth, Bill Dickey, Dan Duryea, Pierre Watkin, Hardie Albright, Addison Richards, Edward Fielding. It was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and was nominated for 11 ...
