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Book

The pride of the Yankees : Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the making of a classic

Call Number

  • 791.4372 P9477S (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Hachette Books, 2017.

Physical Description

viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Contents

  • A brilliant career, a tragic death
  • Hollywood beckons the widow Gehrig
  • The tears of a mogul
  • In search of Lou Gehrig
  • Babe on film
  • Not all Yankees welcome
  • The producer and the star
  • Eleanor: defender of Lou's legacy
  • Teresa Wright will not do cheesecake!
  • Becoming Lou: Cooper learns to play baseball
  • Did Cooper, a right-hander, become Gehrig, a left-hander?
  • Mama's boy
  • "Lou seems to have become more Gary Cooper than Lou Gehrig"
  • Words for all time
  • A screening
  • "Luckiest man" in the South Pacific
  • Epilogue: Cooper says good-bye.

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