Academy Awards, USA 1943
| Winner Oscar | Best Film Editing Daniel Mandell |
| Nominee Oscar | Best Picture Samuel Goldwyn Productions |
| Best Actor in a Leading Role Gary Cooper | |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role Teresa Wright | |
| Best Writing, Original Story Paul Gallico | |
| Best Writing, Screenplay Herman J. Mankiewicz Jo Swerling | |
| Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Rudolph Maté | |
| Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White Perry Ferguson Howard Bristol | |
| Best Sound, Recording Thomas T. Moulton (Samuel Goldwyn SSD) | |
| Best Effects, Special Effects Jack Cosgrove (photographic) Ray Binger (photographic) Thomas T. Moulton (sound) | |
| Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Leigh Harline |
RKO Radio Pictures
Directed by Sam Wood
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, MGM/Fox)
Gary Cooper is famous baseball player Lou Gehrig in this Hollywood biopic. He's really a mama's boy, reluctant to go against her wishes to become an engineer like his uncle. However, when she needs a hospital stay he secretly signs with the Yankees organization to pay for it. He makes his way through the minor league, telling dear old mom he is away at school, until getting called up to the big leagues. He soon convinces his fellow players, and family, that he was meant to be a baseball player. After a long, amazing career, he begins to suffer from the disease that will soon kill him, and be named after him. Cooper's wide-eyed, naive portrayal of Gehrig is simply too much to overcome in this predictable, cliched story.
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