Today’s movie is a sports biography with scenes that happen on September 29. Watch the movie tonight and
enjoy it.
enjoy it.
PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
Young Lou Gehrig plays baseball on the streets of New York, much to the annoyance of his mother who wants him to go to college and become an engineer. Gehrig does not fit in at Columbia, since he comes from a poor family and his mother works as a cook at the college. He does play baseball, which gets him noticed by pro scouts. When his mother becomes ill, Gehrig signs with the Yankee organization to provide her with the best care. He is sent to play for the Hartford farm team, but when he is recalled to play for the Yankees, his mother finds out about his baseball career, which leads to a major blow-up, but Lou talks her into accepting his choice. In spite of early mishaps, Lou plays for the Yankees. At a game in Chicago, he meets Eleanor Twitchell and they start dating. In the 1932 World Series Babe Ruth promises a homer to hospitalized Billy, while Lou promises him two homers. Both men deliver during the game. Afterwards Lou takes the train to Chicago, visits Eleanor at 4 a.m. and proposes to her. On September 29, 1933 [1:17:00 to 1:25:48] after Lou tells him mom who’s the boss, Lou and Eleanor get married and then get a police escort to the game. Gehrig and the Yankees continue their success. On the day he plays in his 2,000th consecutive game Lou notices a twinge of shoulder weakness. He goes into a slump and finally takes himself out of the starting lineup. He learns he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal disease. Gehrig is honored by the Yankees at Lou Gehrig day at Yankee Stadium.
A very good biopic. It is somewhat sentimentalized, like all film bios of it’s time were, but it’s still interesting. Cooper does a very good job playing Gehrig.
Graham, Frank. Lou Gehrig: A Quiet Hero. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1942. Page 164 gives the date of his marriage.
Awards – The movie won the Best Film Editing Oscar. The film was also nominated for the Best Picture, Best Actor(Cooper), Best Actress(Wright), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Effects, Special Effects, Best Music Score, Best Sound Recording, Best Original Story and Best Adapted Screenplay at the 15th Academy Awards.
Screenplay - Jo Swerling and Herman J. Mankiewicz
Producer - Samuel Goldwyn
Director – Sam Wood
Runtime – 2 hours 8 minutes
Released – July 14, 1942
Starring –
Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig
Teresa Wright as Eleanor Twitchell Gehrig
Walter Brennan as Sam Blake
Babe Ruth as Himself
Dan Duryea as Hank Henneman
Ludwig Stossel as Pop Gehrig
Elsa Janssen as Mom Gehrig
Harry Harvey as Joe McCarthy
Ernie Adams as Miller Huggins
Bill Dickey as Himself
Mark Koenig as Himself
in 2015
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