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