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The Pride of the Yankees

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The Pride of the Yankees
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NR,2hrs 8min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1942
Director:
Sam Wood
Distributor:
HBO Home Video
Starring:
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, George Herman "Babe" Ruth  ...more
Synopsis: "It's box office poison," producer Samuel Goldwyn is said to have exclaimed when he heard the idea of filming the life story of fabled first baseman Lou Gehrig. "If people want baseball, they go to the ballpark!" The story begins before World War I, when young Lou Gehrig (played as a boy by Douglas Croft) begins dreaming of becoming a professional ballplayer. Lou's immigrant parents (Elsa Jansen and Ludwig Stossel) insist that the boy attend Columbia University to become an engineer. While in college, ... Full Synopsis
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Bruce Eder, AMG Review
Historically, only a few baseball movies have done well at the box office, mostly because audiences are lukewarm to portrayals of heroes of the diamond. Sam Wood's The Pride of the Yankees, however, is an exception, and an improbable one: neither producer Samuel Goldwyn nor star Gary Cooper knew anything about baseball, and it seemed unlikely that anyone was going to pay money to see a story in which ... Full Review
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Gary Cooper
Lou Gehrig
Teresa Wright
Eleanor Gehrig
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
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Walter Brennan
Sam Blake
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