“The Pride of the Yankees” is a sports biographical film about the life of popular baseball player Lou Gehrig (1903-1941). Gary Cooper was perfect in the lead role as the stoic Gehrig, son of German immigrants, whose life was cut short by a neurodegenerative disease. The film is a sentimental look at both his private life as well as his record-setting career in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees.
Co-stars include Teresa Wright as Mrs. Gehrig, Elsa Jannson and Ludwig Stossel as Mom and Pop Gehrig, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, Virginia Gilmore, Ernie Adams, Harry Harvey. Several ballplayers appeared as themselves including Babe Ruth, Bill Dickey, Bob Meusel, Mark Keonig, and sportscaster Bill Stern.
Director Sam Wood (“Goodbye, Mr. Chips” 1939) did an excellent job at the helm of what is now considered a classic motion picture. The sterling screenplay was written by Jo Swerling and Herman J. Mankiewicz with the story by Paul Gallico.
“The Pride of the Yankees” won one Academy Award for Best Film Editing, with ten nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Gary Cooper), Best Actress (Teresa Wright), Best Cinematography (Black-and-White), Best Writing (Story), Best Writing (Screenplay), Best Art Direction, Best Effects (Special), Best Sound. and Best Musical Scoring.
The watchable sentimental baseball movie “The Pride of the Yankees” was successful at the box office for producers Samuel Goldwyn and William Cameron Menzies, Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and RKO Radio Pictures.
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
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“The Pride of the Yankees” is a sports biographical film about the life of popular baseball player Lou Gehrig (1903-1941). Gary Cooper was perfect in the lead role as the stoic Gehrig, son of German immigrants, whose life was cut short by a neurodegenerative disease. The film is a sentimental look at both his private life as well as his record-setting career in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees.
Co-stars include Teresa Wright as Mrs. Gehrig, Elsa Jannson and Ludwig Stossel as Mom and Pop Gehrig, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, Virginia Gilmore, Ernie Adams, Harry Harvey. Several ballplayers appeared as themselves including Babe Ruth, Bill Dickey, Bob Meusel, Mark Keonig, and sportscaster Bill Stern.
Director Sam Wood (“Goodbye, Mr. Chips” 1939) did an excellent job at the helm of what is now considered a classic motion picture. The sterling screenplay was written by Jo Swerling and Herman J. Mankiewicz with the story by Paul Gallico.
“The Pride of the Yankees” won one Academy Award for Best Film Editing, with ten nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Gary Cooper), Best Actress (Teresa Wright), Best Cinematography (Black-and-White), Best Writing (Story), Best Writing (Screenplay), Best Art Direction, Best Effects (Special), Best Sound. and Best Musical Scoring.
The watchable sentimental baseball movie “The Pride of the Yankees” was successful at the box office for producers Samuel Goldwyn and William Cameron Menzies, Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and RKO Radio Pictures.