The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

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Directed by

Sam Wood

Starring (View all)

Gary Cooper
Lou Gehrig

Teresa Wright
Eleanor Gehrig

Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth

Walter Brennan
Sam Blake

Dan Duryea
Hank Hanneman

Elsa Janssen
Mom Gehrig

Ludwig Stössel
Pop Gehrig

Virginia Gilmore
Myra

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Jo Swerling
(screenplay) and

Herman J. Mankiewicz
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The Pride of the Yankees

9 years, 1 month ago at Jan 5 5:32

JxSxPx

Lou Gehrig died a year before this film was released, and that should tell you everything you need to know about it. It has no concern for telling the factual truth about Gehrig, it wants to present him as a saint. This is not biographical film-making, this is pure hagiography. Lou Gehrig’s story is an amazing bit of American mythology, and it deserves to be told, but it deserves to be told trut... read more

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5 years, 4 months ago at Oct 13 16:27

fernando

All the clisés, but here's is an important for everybody hit, full of the warmth of american institutions, baseball, migrant dreams, even public relations (good ol Brennan), people of all kinds. The police acompanies Cooper/Gehrig to delcare to Teresa and to get, being just married, to the stadium

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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. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.

Release date: 26 October 1942
UPC: 026359125720

Tags: Drama (6), Baseball (5), Biography (4), Romance (4), 1942 (3), Sports (3), Biopic (3), 1940s (2), Terminal Illness (2), Road Trip (2), Disease (2), Family (2), New York (1), Lou Gehrig (1), The Iron Horse (1), Cap (1), Baseball Cap (1), Babe Ruth (1), AFI Top 50 Heroes (1)

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