L'idolo delle folle

Titolo originale:
Regia: Sam Wood |
Anno: 1942
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Famiglia
Tag:
Cast: Gary Cooper | Teresa Wright | Babe Ruth | Walter Brennan | Dan Duryea | Elsa Janssen | Ludwig Stössel | Virginia Gilmore | Bill Dickey | Ernie Adams | Pierre Watkin | Harry Harvey | Bob Meusel | Mark Koenig | Bill Stern | Addison Richards | Hardie Albright | Edward Fielding | George Lessey | Edgar Barrier | Douglas Croft | Gene Collins | David Holt | Veloz | Yolanda | Ed Agresti | Ernie Alexander | Hooper Atchley | Edwin August | Bettye Avery | Becky Bohanon | Lynton Brent | Roy Brent | Betty Brewer | Don Brodie | Charles Cane | Jack Carr | Burr Caruth | Eddy Chandler | Lane Chandler | Bill Chaney | Jack Chapin | Janet Chapman | Spencer Charters | Porter Chase | Dane Clark | Heinie Conklin | Hal Cooke | Clancy Cooper | John Daheim | Eva Dennison | Lester Dorr | Peter Du Rey | Lorna Dunn | Jim Farley | Frank Faylen | Walter Fenner | Pat Flaherty | Rosina Galli | Vaughan Glaser | Dick Gordon | Mary Gordon | Herschel Graham | George Guhl | Eddie Hall | Harry Hayden | Vinton Hayworth | Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian | John Hiestand | Earle Hodgins | Fay Holderness | John Ince | Mitchell Ingraham | Charles Irwin | Jack Irwin | Sheldon Jett | Payne B. Johnson | John Kellogg | Colin Kenny | Donald Kerr | Richard Kipling | Pat Lane | Larry Lawson | Rex Lease | Theodore Lorch | Frank Lyman | Wilbur Mack | Dave Manley | Maurice Marks | Francisco Marán | John C. McCallum | Ralph McCullough | George McDonald | Matt McHugh | James McNamara | Wilmuth Merkyl | Howard M. Mitchell | Irving Mitchell | Pat Moriarity | Tom Neal | Ray Noble | Patsy O'Byrne | George Offerman, Jr. | John B. Old | Garry Owen | Sarah Padden | Emory Parnell | Edward Peil Sr. | Tom Quinn | Cyril Ring | Henry Roquemore | Art Rowlands | William Roy | Rip Russell | Francis Sayles | Anita Sharp-Bolster | C. Montague Shaw | Jack Shea | John Sheehan | Jack Stewart | Brick Sullivan | Ben Taggart | Walter Tetley | Jimmy Valentine | Gohr Van Vleck | Dorothy Vaughan | Dorothy Vernon | Malcolm Waite | James Westerfield | Guy Wilkerson | Max Willenz | Buddy Williams | Charles Williams | Robert Winkler | Allen Wood | Mike Donovan | Dick Gordon | Charles Flynn | Jack Gardner | Anthony Walters |

I parenti lo vorrebbero ingegnere, ma la sua passione è il baseball. Studia e si allena, porta alla vittoria la sua squadra in oltre duemila partite, sposa una sua fan. Vivace biografia di Lou Gehrig, per sedici anni asso degli Yankees che, al culmine della gloria sportiva, fu colpito da una micidiale forma di sclerosi e morì a 37 anni.