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Bezig met laden... The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classicdoor Richard Sandomir
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Non-fiction about the making of the movie, Pride of the Yankees, starring Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig and Teresa Wright as Eleanor Gehrig. The book starts off with a summary of Lou Gehrig’s life and baseball career, focusing on the latter stages when he was struck down by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), now commonly called Lou Gehrig’s disease. It then shifts to the making of the movie of his life story, which was heavily influenced by his widow, Eleanor, producer Samuel Goldwyn, sportswriter Paul Gallico, who wrote the initial script, Herman Mankiewicz and Jo Sterling, the two scriptwriters of the final film. This book provides a thorough look at the making of the film and is more about filmmaking than baseball. It includes a scene-by-scene analysis of the movie. It goes into detail on scenes that were later cut. The author points out what liberties were taken with the facts and the importance of the film in the context of the time (Gehrig died in 1941 and the movie was released in 1942). It contains answers to whether or not Gary Cooper, a right-hander, performed left-handed for the picture, and whether the famous “luckiest man” speech was ever written down word-for-word. I appreciate the author’s achievement in separating fact from fiction, as I think it is important to the historical record. I need to take another look at the movie with the details of this book in mind. It is an enjoyable read for baseball fans and film history buffs. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"I CONSIDER MYSELF THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH." 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. Sandomir writes with great insight and aplomb, painting 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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