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The Pride of the Yankees (1942) -- Baseball star Lou Gehrig overcomes the odds to become a legend in the game.

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7.7/10   4,192 votes
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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)

User Comments:
Nice Movie About A Great Player and Genuinely-Nice Man 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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Additional Details

Runtime:
128 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Lefty O'Doul worked with Gary Cooper to improve his batting style. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The home run that Babe Ruth hits for the little boy in the hospital is said to have gone to center field. When the ball is hit, its trajectory is towards right field. The play by play announcer says it goes to center field. There is no way the ball could have gone to center field. more
Quotes:
Eleanor Gehrig: Lou Gehrig, I could learn to like you. more
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Soundtrack:
Auld Lang Syne more

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16 out of 20 people found the following comment useful.
Nice Movie About A Great Player and Genuinely-Nice Man, 29 September 2006
9/10
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

A lot of non-baseball fans still liked this movie a lot, and that's probably because it's more about a nice guy than it is about a ballplayer. New York Yankee great Lou Gehrig is the subject. Gehrig was often in the shadow of the great Babe Ruth, but was tremendous player in his own right and a far better human being.

It's tough to find many nicer movies than this one: a totally inoffensive, sentimental and old- fashioned film about a super-nice guy, played by a popular actor: Gary Cooper. Except for one sportswriter, there were no villains or nasty people in this movie.

Teresa Wright plays "Eleanor Twitchell," who becomes Gehrig's wife and Walter Brennan plays sportswriter and friend, "Sam Blake." The real Babe Ruth played himself, which was nice to see.

Even though Gehrig died at a fairly young age of a disease now named after him, overall this was a feel-good movie of the highest sort. This was so nice a story that even the cynical critics dared not criticize it. It leaves you with tears in your eyes at the end.

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Gehrig did NOT write left handed khauser-2
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