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The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 biographical film which tells the story of New York Yankees star Lou Gehrig. It stars Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth (as himself), Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea, Elsa Janssen and Ludwig Stössel.

The movie was adapted by Herman J. Mankiewicz, Casey Robinson (uncredited) and Jo Swerling from a story by Paul Gallico. It was directed by Sam Wood.

It won the Academy Award for Film Editing and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Gary Cooper), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Teresa Wright), Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Effects, Special Effects, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Picture, Best Sound, Recording, Best Writing, Original Story and Best Writing, Screenplay.

This film is widely known for a line in Gehrig's farewell speech. That line, "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth," was voted number 38 in the American Film Institute (AFI) list of the 100 greatest movie quotes of all time.

In another famous scene, Gehrig visits a crippled boy named Billy (Gene Collins) in a hospital and promises to hit two home runs for him in a single World Series game; Gehrig successfully fulfills his promise, and an older Billy attends Lou Gehrig Day and shows Gehrig that he can walk without a limp, as if the illness had never happened. This event, a takeoff on something that happened to Babe Ruth, was parodied on a 1995 episode of Seinfeld
("The Wink," in which the promise was made by guest-star Paul O'Neill) and in the movie Baseketball.

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