In director Sam Wood's and RKO's popular biographical ("biopic") baseball sports movie about Yankees sports hero Lou Gehrig (nicknamed "The Iron Horse"), following his life from his immigrant family ...
Gehrig’s life story would famously reach the silver screen in 1942 with The Pride of the Yankees, starring Gary Cooper as the strapping first baseman of the New York Yankees and Teresa Wright as his ...
The short was produced at the request of Samuel Goldwyn and first shown to accompany the 1942 feature film The Pride of the Yankees.