This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/20/2023
The offered studio-issued photo was produced to promote the 1949 rerelease of the 1942 film Pride of the Yankees. The photo features Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, who played himself in the film. The Pride of the Yankees was produced by Samuel Goldwyn, directed by Sam Wood, and along with Ruth and Cooper, starred Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan, who also appear in this photo. It is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before its release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which later became known to the lay public as "Lou Gehrig's disease". The photo still maintains its original paper caption which reads:
SURPRISE. Walter Brennan gets Babe ruth to help Gary Cooper settle a personal score with Teresa Wright in this scene from Samuel Goldwyn's "The Pride of the Yankees, " which stars Cooper with Miss Wright, Brennan and Ruth. Directed by Sam Wood and rereleased through RKO Radio, the picture tells the intimate love story of an idol cheered by millions.
The photo measures 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches and presents in minimally Near Mint to Mint condition.