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Sandomir, Richard.
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Gehrig, Lou, 1903-1941.
Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961.
New York Yankees (Baseball team)
Pride of the Yankees (Motion picture)
Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- Biography.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction.
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Sandomir, Richard.
Gehrig, Lou, 1903-1941.
Cooper, Gary, 1901-1961.
New York Yankees (Baseball team)
Pride of the Yankees (Motion picture)
Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- Biography.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction.
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The pride of the Yankees : Lou Gehrig, Gary
Cooper
, and the making of a classic / Richard Sandomir.
by
Sandomir, Richard.
Hachette Books, 2017.
Call #:
791.4372 P947s
Subjects
Gehrig, Lou, 1903-1941.
Cooper
, Gary,
1901-1961
.
New York Yankees (Baseball team)
Pride of the Yankees (Motion picture)
Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Patients -- Biography.
Motion pictures -- Production and direction.
ISBN:
9780316355056 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
viii, 293 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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. 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. Richard Sandomir has been a sports business writer for the New York Times since 1991. He is the author or co-author of several books including Bald Like Me, and, most recently, The Enlightened Bracketologist, and its sequel, The Final Four of Everything."--Provided by publisher.
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