The pride of the Yankees
Subtitle: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the making of a classic
By: Richard Sandomir
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780316355056
Subjects: Pride of the Yankees (Motion picture)
Description: The New York times award-winning sports columnist shares the behind-the-scenes story of how the classic film "Pride of the Yankees" came to be created.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: A brilliant career, a tragic death; title: Hollywood beckons the widow Gehrig; title: The tears of a mogul; title: In search of Lou Gehrig; title: Babe on film; title: Not all Yankees welcome; title: The producer and the star; title: Eleanor: defender of Lou's legacy; title: Teresa Wright will not do cheesecake!; title: Becoming Lou: Cooper learns to play baseball; title: Did Cooper, a right-hander, become Gehrig, a left-hander?; title: Mama's boy; title: "Lou seems to have become more Gary Cooper than Lou Gehrig"; title: Words for all time; title: A screening; title: "Luckiest man" in the South Pacific; title: Epilogue: Cooper says good-bye.