Interview with Richard Sandomir




Warner Archive Podcast show

Summary: George talks with author Richard Sandomir about The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic. The New York Times sports columnist talks about the full story behind the pioneering, seminal movie. The film features Gary Cooper as the dying Lou Gehrig who called himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth" even as his body was being ravaged by the disease that was soon named after him.