Directed by:
Sam WoodCinematography:
Rudolph MatéComposer:
Leigh HarlineCast:
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, Ludwig Stössel, Virginia Gilmore, Ernie Adams, Pierre Watkin, Harry Hayden, Addison Richards (more)Plots(1)
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. (MUBI)
Cast
Gary Cooper
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Wings (1927)
Teresa Wright
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Rainmaker (1997)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Babe Ruth
USA
Best movies:
Zelig (1983) - a.f.
Moneyball (2011) - a.f.
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Walter Brennan
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Fury (1936)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Dan Duryea
USA
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Ludwig Stössel
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Casablanca (1942)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Virginia Gilmore
USA
Best movies:
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Swamp Water (1941)
Wonder Man (1945)
Ernie Adams
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Pierre Watkin
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Harry Hayden
Canada
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Addison Richards
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Hardie Albright
USA
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Bambi (1942)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
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Edward Fielding
USA
Best movies:
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Rebecca (1940)
Madame Curie (1943)
Tom Neal
USA
Best movies:
Detour (1945)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Charles Irwin
Ireland
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Dane Clark
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Frank Faylen
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Henry Roquemore
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Lane Chandler
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Emory Parnell
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
Sabrina (1954)