The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American Sports film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. The film is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before the film's 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 , 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.
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| Release date: | July 14, 1942 |
| Directed by: | Sam Wood |
| Runtime: | 128 Minutes |
| Producer: | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Editor: | Dan Mandell, Daniel Mandell |
| Music by: | Leigh Harline |
| Cinematography: | Rudolph Maté |
| Screenplay by: | Paul Gallico, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jo Swerling |
| Genre: | Biography |