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Director:
Writers:
Paul Gallico (story)
Jo Swerling (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
5 March 1943 (USA) more
Tagline:
THE Private LIFE OF A GREAT Public HERO! (original print ad - mostly caps) more
Plot:
The story of the life and career of the famed baseball player, Lou Gehrig. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 10 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
(From Extra. 4 November 2009, 4:45 AM, PST)
Oscar-Winning Actress Teresa Wright Dies at 86
(From WENN. 8 March 2005)
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Gary gracefully gets it right, as Gehrig. more (44 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Gary Cooper | ... | Henry Louis 'Lou' Gehrig | |
| Teresa Wright | ... | Eleanor Twitchell | |
| Babe Ruth | ... | Babe Ruth | |
| Walter Brennan | ... | Sam Blake | |
| Dan Duryea | ... | Hank Hanneman | |
| Elsa Janssen | ... | Christina 'Mom' Gehrig | |
| Ludwig Stössel | ... | Henry 'Pop' Gehrig (as Ludwig Stossel) | |
| Virginia Gilmore | ... | Myra Tinsley | |
| Bill Dickey | ... | Bill Dickey | |
| Ernie Adams | ... | Miller Huggins | |
| Pierre Watkin | ... | Frank Twitchell | |
| Harry Harvey | ... | Joe McCarthy | |
| Bob Meusel | ... | Bob Meusel (as Robert W. Meusel) | |
| Mark Koenig | ... | Mark Koenig | |
| Bill Stern | ... | Bill Stern |
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128 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Finland:S | Portugal:M/12 | Sweden:Btl | USA:Approved (PCA #8295) | USA:Passed
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Released just 17 months after Lou Gehrig's death. more
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Continuity: When Christina 'Mom' Gehrig joins Eleanor Twitchell are discussing the bureau as they shop for home furnishings, Eleanor stands before the rectangular mirror in the long-shots, but in the close-up, she is standing in front of a heart-shaped mirror. more
Quotes:
Lou Gehrig:
Is it three strikes, Doc?
Clinic doctor:
You want it straight?
Lou Gehrig:
Yeah.
Clinic doctor:
It's three strikes.
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Referenced in "M*A*S*H: 5 O'Clock Charlie (#2.2)" (1973) more
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Ain't We Got Fun? more
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First off, my favorite actor of all time is Gary Cooper. I love his acting style, the gawkiness he often used in his screen roles, in addition of course to the fact that I thought he was absolutely gorgeous, in his prime (when he was in his 30's and 40's). Cooper's appeal is only enhanced, for me, by the distance of his on screen persona from his real-life one...he was quite the ladies' man in real life, not awkward with women as the characters he often portrayed on screen, and his smoldering sexuality shows from his piercing blue eyes. His lively offscreen affairs with stars such as Clara Bow (who famously declared "He's hung like a horse and he can go all night!"), Lupe Velez aka "The Mexican Spitfire", and of course Patricia Neal, are the stuff of old Hollywood legend.
Kevin Costner and Ralph Fiennes in their primes had nothing' on Coop. He was the man. Cooper, who started off wanting to be an artist, fell into acting instead, first as a stunt man in westerns, but quickly getting leading roles. He continued to do most of his own riding and stunts even into his later years, carving himself quite a name as a star of westerns, including the western classic "High Noon" (1952), but my favorite films of his were films such as "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" (1936), "Meet John Doe" (1941), "Ball Of Fire" (1941), "Sargeant York" (1941), and of course "The Pride Of The Yankees". My husband understands my adoration of Gary Cooper; and/but we had this brief discussion before we watched my recently purchased DVD of the film (I'd seen it before, but didn't own a copy of it):
Husband: "I don't mind watching it with you as long as you don't make those noises you always make when you watch a Gary Cooper movie."
Me: "What noises?"
Husband: "Those noises like the ones Homer Simpson makes when he looks at a stick of butter...'Mmmmmmmm'...."
Me: "What? I didn't know I did that. Okay, I won't make any weird noises while we watch it."
So I was quiet (except for of course choking up in tears when Cooper delivers Gehrig's legendary "Today, I consider myself to be the luckiest man on the face of the earth" farewell speech). Gehrig's retirement speech helped immortalize him as a hero and an all-American role model.
"The Pride of the Yankees" is the blueprint for the sports biopic, and is generally considered to be the best movie about baseball ever made. Teresa Wright stars as his wife Eleanor. Wright, who just passed away this March, was an excellent actress, and a beautiful woman. The last film I saw her in was in a small part in "Somewhere In Time", and she had aged wonderfully. She and Cooper had great chemistry on screen, holding her own ground as he towered over her petite 5'3" frame.
Walter Brennan, a frequent Cooper co-star and real-life friend, and Babe Ruth as himself are two other co-stars who contribute much to the film.
The film traces the rags-to-riches story of Gehrig, as his childhood dream comes true when he's signed to the New York Yankees, and his untimely retirement when he is stricken with the fatal, neurological disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) which was afterwards simply called "Lou Gehrig's Disease". Cooper, although a bit of an odd choice for the part (one reason being his height, he was about 6'4"), gives an endearing, heartfelt, dignified performance, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Gehrig was left-handed, Cooper right-handed, which was further complicated by the fact that Cooper himself wasn't a capable baseball player. For the filming, his uniform had "New York" printed backwards on it, he ran to third base when he hit a ball, and then the print was reversed.
Nominated for 11 Academy Awards in all, and receiving 1 (for Film Editing), "The Pride Of The Yankees" still stands as a must-see film for baseball fans and fans of classic cinema alike.