The Pride of the Yankees, 1942, R49, Movie Glass Slide, Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth

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The Pride of the Yankees, 1942, R49, Movie Glass Slide, Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth
The Pride of the Yankees, 1942, R49, Movie Glass Slide, Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth
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You are bidding on an ORIGINAL "coming attraction" Movie Glass/Lantern Slide that was designed to promote the theatrical release of the 1942, R49, Baseball feature, "The Pride of the Yankees". "Very Rare"
I am Auctioning off my entire collection of
Movie Glass Slides
this week (over 100). Please check out some of these titles:
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A Night at the Opera
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Destry Rides Again
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The Little Foxes
, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
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The Great Lie
,
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1942, R49 -
The Pride of the Yankees
, Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth
, Teresa Wright
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Little Women
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This hand colored glass slide is an ORIGINAL and it is NOT a reproduction. It was created to be projected onto the movie theatre screen before the film was released to promote the "coming attraction". Some people in the movie collectible world have said, that, glass slides are much rarer than the paper poster memorabilia from the same film and are very rare pieces of film history.
Format:
Glass Slide: 3 1/4" x 4"
Plot Summary:
The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American film produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Sam Wood, and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. It is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before its release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which later became known to the lay public as "Lou Gehrig's disease".
Though subtitled The Life of Lou Gehrig, the film is less a sports biography than an homage to a heroic and widely loved sports figure whose tragic and premature death touched the entire nation. It emphasizes Gehrig's relationship with his parents (particularly his strong-willed mother), his friendships with players and journalists, and his storybook romance with the woman who became his "companion for life," Eleanor. Details of his baseball career—which were still fresh in most fans' minds in 1942—are limited to montages of ballparks, pennants, and Cooper swinging bats and running bases, though Gehrig's best-known major league record—2,130 consecutive games played—is prominently cited.
Yankee teammates Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig, and Bill Dickey play themselves, as does sportscaster Bill Stern. The film was adapted by Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jo Swerling, and an uncredited Casey Robinson from a story by Paul Gallico, and received 11 Oscar nominations. Its climax is a re-enactment of Gehrig's poignant 1939 farewell speech at Yankee Stadium. The film's iconic closing line—"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth"—was voted 38th on the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest movie quotes.
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.
Trivia
:
In reality, Gary Cooper was decidedly not a fan of baseball and required extensive coaching in order to look even passable on a baseball diamond. In fact, he had never played the game before, even as a youth, and had never even seen a baseball game in person until he was hired for this film.
Babe Ruth missed several days of shooting and filming during the production because of his own illness.
Lou Gehrig's famous retirement quote, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.", was originally spoken on Tuesday, July 4th, 1939. And it was voted as the #38 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
Samuel Goldwyn was initially reluctant about making the film as he believed that baseball movies were box office poison. He was persuaded to do it when he viewed footage of Gehrig's famous farewell speech.
While filming the movie, Teresa Wright - who played Gehrig's wife Eleanor Gehrig - wore the actual bracelet which Lou gave to Eleanor on their fourth anniversary. Eleanor brought the bracelet to the set to be used in the movie. The bracelet is made up of 17 metal medallions celebrating the seven World Championships and six All-Star game appearances Gehrig made. The bracelet is now displayed in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Ranked #3 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Sports" in June 2008.
Studio:
RKO Radio Pictures
Date:
1942, R49 (Re-Release)
Genre:
Biography
, Drama,
Romance, Sport
Director(s):
Sam Wood
Producer(s):
Samuel Goldwyn and William Cameron Menzies
Cast
:
Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig
Teresa Wright as Eleanor Gehrig
Babe Ruth as Himself
Walter Brennan as Sam Blake
Dan Duryea as Hank Hanneman
Elsa Janssen as Mom Gehrig
Ludwig Stössel as Pop Gehrig
Virginia Gilmore as Myra
Bill Dickey as Himself
Ernie Adams as Miller Huggins
Pierre Watkin as Mr. Twitchell
Harry Harvey as Joe McCarthy (manager)
Robert W. Meusel as Himself
Mark Koenig as Himself
Bill Stern as Himself
Addison Richards as Coach
Hardie Albright as Van Tuyl
Edward Fielding as Clinic doctor
George Lessey as Mayor of New Rochelle
Edgar Barrier as Hospital doctor
Douglas Croft as Lou Gehrig as a boy
Gene Collins as Billy, age 8
David Holt as Billy, age 17
Frank Faylen as Yankees' 3rd Base Coach (uncredited)
C. Montague Shaw as Mr. Worthington (uncredited)
James Westerfield as Spectator (uncredited)
More Info on Gary Cooper:
Gary Cooper was born Frank James Cooper in Helena, Montana, USA in 1901. His mother was English born, and he and his brother were sent to an English boarding school to be educated when they were young, but when WWI broke out, they were brought home.
His father was a judge who also owned a ranch, and Cooper went to college, but did not graduate, and ran his father's ranch afterwards, and also drew some cartoons for the local paper. When he was 23 his father left the bench and sold the ranch and his parents moved to California, and because Cooper could not make a living at his cartooning, he moved with them.
After a year of odd jobs, he started getting extra roles in movie westerns. He signed a contract with Paramount, and changed his first name to Gary. Cooper got progressively better roles in non-talkie movies, and had romances with some of his more famous co-stars, including Clara Bow and Lupe Velez.
In 1927, he played a small, but important role of a doomed flyer in Wings, which was a major breakthrough for him, and led to many better starring roles the following year. In 1929 he starred as the title character in
The Virginian
, which was made in both a talkie and non-talkie version.
He had become the man that women everywhere swooned over, and men wanted to be like him. In 1930 he starred in Morocco, opposite Marlene Dietrich, and in 1932 he was hand picked by Hemingway to star in A Farewell to Arms, and in 1936 he starred in Frank Capra's
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film).
He had his pick of movies, and many of the ones he turned down were then offered to similar actor Joel McCrea, who basically lived in Cooper's shadow throughout the 1930s. He turned down the lead role in Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (it started out as a Mr. Deeds sequel), and James Stewart got the role. He turned down the lead in Stagecoach, and that part made John Wayne a major star after toiling in B-westerns for many years.
His greatest blunder was turning down the role of Rhett Butler in
Gone with the Wind
. He said at the time, "Gone with the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history. I'm glad it'll be Clark Gable who' falling flat on his nose, not me"!
In 1941, Alvin York, the most decorated soldier in WWI, finally agreed to a movie being made of his life (to help recruiting efforts in WWII), but he insisted that only Cooper could play him, and Cooper won his first Oscar for that role in
Sergeant York
. The next year Lou Gehrig tragically died, and Cooper played him superbly in
The Pride Of The Yankees
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and his "Today I am the luckiest man on the face of the Earth" speech is one of the great moments in movie history!
He was Robert Jordan in Hemingway's
For Whom The Bell Tolls
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and Ayn Rand picked him to play Howard Roark in The Fountainhead. In 1952 he had one of the finest roles of his career, as Will Kane in
High Noon
, and he won a second Oscar. In 1960 he got prostate cancer, and he died the following year, at 60 years of age.
There will never be another star like Gary Cooper! He stayed a major leading actor for 25 solid years, starring in around 90 movies, and during that time he was the lead in important movies of all sorts, because so many writers, directors, and co-stars wanted him for their star!
More Info on Teresa Wright
:
Teresa Wright was born in 1918. This super likeable classy actress was not only nominated for both Best Actress AND Best Supporting Actress in a single year (she won the supporting Oscar for
Mrs. Miniver
) but she also completed the remarkable "hat trick" of being nominated for Oscars for her very first three film roles, something that is highly unlikely to ever be repeated! Her fourth role was the lead in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and she also had memorable roles in
The Best Years of Our Lives and The Men
(opposite Marlon Brando, in his first movie). But it seems her heart was never in the movies, and she turned to TV in the 1950s, and did much work on the stage. Personally, I will always remember her best for her role as Eleanor Gehrig, wife of Lou Gehrig in
The Pride Of The Yankees
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film)! She is also well-remembered for her role in
The Little Foxes
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film). She passed away in 2005 at the age of 86.
More Info on Babe Ruth:
George Herman 'Babe' Ruth was a legendary professional sports baseball player from the 1910s to the 1930s, playing with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. Nicknamed "
the Bambino
" and "
the Sultan of Swat
", he is perhaps one of the most famous baseball players to have played the game, having led the Red Sox and the Yankees to a total of seven World Series championships. He was inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1936 only a year after his retirement! Ruth passed away in 1948 at the age of 53.
Babe Ruth made several movies and shorts: Headin Home (1920); Babe Comes Home (1927); Speedy (1928); Slide Babe Slide (1932); Perfect Control (1932); Over the Fence (1932); Just Pals (1932); Fancy Curves (1932); Home Run on the Keys (1937) and
The Pride of the Yankees
(1942).
More Info on Walter Brennan
:
Walter Brennan was a great character actor from the 1920s to the 1970s. Amazingly, it took him many years to get beyond playing uncredited roles! He had served in
World War I
(and supposedly he was exposed to mustard gas, which damaged his vocal chords and caused his distinctive voice!), and then he moved to Los Angeles where he speculated on real estate and made a fortune. But then he went broke, and he turned to movie acting in 1925, where he met struggling actor
Gary Cooper
, and the two became great friends, trying to get roles at the same time. But unlike Cooper, who became a major star, Brennan spent almost a decade playing very minor roles (often uncredited). In 1932, he had an accident while filming a movie, losing most of his teeth after an actor kicked his face, and from that point on, he played people much older than himself, often hillbillies! But he finally had a major role in Come and Get It (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) in 1936, and he had major success from then on. Some of his roles include: Kentucky (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
The Westerner
(winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Red River,
Bride of Frankenstein
, and My Darling Clementine. He appeared in several movies with Gary Cooper, including Sergeant York (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) and
Meet John Doe
. He had much fame later in life as the star of TV's "
The Real McCoys
". Brennan passed away in 1974 at the age of 80.
More Info on Dan Duryea
:
Dan Duryea was an actor from the 1940s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Woman in the Window, Scarlet Street, The Little Foxes,
Winchester '73
, The Pride of the Yankees and Ball of Fire. He passed away in 1968 at the age of 61.
More Info on Elsa Janssen
:
Elsa Janssen was born on October 5, 1883 in Düsseldorf, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Great Lover (1931),
The Pride of the Yankees
(1942) and Claudia (1943). She died on February 5, 1969 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
More Info on Ludwig Stossel
:
Born in Austria in 1883, Ludwig Stossel was an established theater presence (from age 17) in both his homeland and in Germany for decades, performing at one time or another for both Max Reinhardt and Otto Preminger. He made a handful of German silents beginning in 1926 and had moved with ease into sound pictures.
He provided secondary but memorable foreign characters in such WWII classics as Casablanca (1942), Kings Row (1942), and the Lou Gehrig biopic
The Pride of the Yankees
(1942) as Gehrig's (Gary Cooper) father.
Firmly established in Hollywood, the amiable Stossel continued playing sweet and wise old souls throughout the remainder of his career. Particularly outstanding was his role as Albert Einstein in The Beginning or the End (1947). He also worked on TV in the 1950s and is perhaps best remembered for his long series of commercials for Italian Swiss Colony wine in which he played "that little old winemaker, me!" in Swiss costume. Married to actress Eleanore Stossel, he died in 1973 at age 89 in Beverly Hills, California.
More Info on Bill Dickey
:
Perhaps the best major league catcher of the 1930s, Bill Dickey caught for the New York Yankees during the transition from the Babe Ruth/Lou Gehrig era to the Joe DiMaggio era. He was strong and composed at bat and behind the plate. In the 1934 All-Star game, when
Carl Hubbell
struck out Ruth, Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin, it was Dickey who ended Hubbard's streak with a single. Mild mannered off the field, he was a fiery competitor on. On 4 July 1932 he objected to the way Carl Reynolds of the Washington Senators slid into him at home plate. He broke Reynolds's jaw with one punch. The league suspended him for 30 days and fined him 00.
In 1943, Dickey enlisted in the US Navy at age 36. He served until 1945. He returned to the Yankees for the 1946 season, but was slumping. When Joe McCarthy was fired in mid-season, Dickey took over as manager. He resigned after the end of the season and became a coach. His first duty was to refine the talents of
Yogi Berra
, who was assigned Dickey's #8 jersey. He scouted for the Yankees during 1958 and 1959, then retired for good. Elected to the
Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1954, the Yankees retired #8 to honor Dickey and Berra in 1972.
More Info on Bob Muesel
:
Bob Meusel was born on July 19, 1896 in San Jose, California, USA as Robert William Meusel. Power-hitting outfielder for New York Yankees, 1920-1929, appearing in six World Series. Led American League in home runs and runs batted in, 1925. Played in same outfield with Babe Ruth. He was an actor, known for The Pride of the Yankees (1942) and Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927). He died on November 28, 1977 in Downey, California.
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Slide Condition: EX-NM. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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