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The Pride of the Yankees - Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic (Paperback)
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The Pride of the Yankees - Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic (Paperback)
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"I CONSIDER MYSELF THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH." On
July 4, 1939, baseball great Lou Gehrig delivered what has been
called "baseball's Gettysburg Address" at Yankee Stadium and gave a
speech that included the phrase that would become legendary. He
died two years later and his fiery widow, Eleanor, wanted nothing
more than to keep his memory alive. With her forceful will, she and
the irascible producer Samuel Goldwyn quickly agreed to make a film
based on Gehrig's life, The Pride of the Yankees. Goldwyn didn't
understand--or care about--baseball. For him this film was the
emotional story of a quiet, modest hero who married a spirited
woman who was the love of his life, and, after a storied career,
gave a short speech that transformed his legacy. With the world at
war and soldiers dying on foreign soil, it was the kind of movie
America needed. Using original scrips, letters, memos, and other
rare documents, Richard Sandomir tells the behind-the-scenes story
of how a classic was born. There was the so-called Scarlett
O'Hara-like search to find the actor to play Gehrig; the stunning
revelations Elanor made to the scriptwriter Paul Gallico about her
life with Lou; the intensive training Cooper underwent to learn how
to catch, throw, and hit a baseball for the first time; and the
story of two now-legendary Hollywood actors in Gary Cooper and
Teresa Wright whose nuanced performances endowed the Gehrigs with
upstanding dignity and cemented the baseball icon's legend.
Sandomir writes with great insight and aplomb, painting a
fascinating portrait of a bygone Hollywood era, a mourning widow
with a dream, and the shadow a legend cast on one of the greatest
sports films of all time.
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