To celebrate the 4th of July, I decided to watch this excellent movie about a great American hero, The Pride of the Yankees, which is an account of the life of the late, great baseball player, Lou Gehrig. Gary Cooper has just the right mix of shyness, joy, humor, and love of the game to portray what was considered the real Lou's personality. Teresa Wright has the moxie to match the chemistry with Cooper as Gehrig's eventual wife, Eleanor. What a treat to see Walter Brennan, who previously appeared with Gary in Sergeant York and Meet John Doe, again support him as sportswriter and friend Sam Blake. His scenes with Dan Duryea are some of the most humorous here. Loved seeing Lou promise a bedridden kid to hit two home runs and then seeing that kid years later come back for Gehrig's farewell address. I was also very amused to see Charles Williams, Cousin Eustace in It's a Wonderful Life, here playing a bell ringer in a carnival. Babe Ruth is not so bad playing himself! Leigh Harline, composer of Pinochio, has a fine score here. Irving Berlin's song, "Always", is nicely performed by a female singer on stage and is used appropriately in parts of the score. And certainly one of the greatest words ever spoken comes from here: "I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." So, show your pride and watch a biography of one of America's greatest heroes, Lou Gehrig, this Independence Day!