Editing The Pride of the Yankees (section)

==Reception==

===Critical===
''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' magazine called the film a "stirring epitaph" and a "sentimental, romantic saga ... well worth seeing."<ref>{{cite magazine| title = The Pride of the Yankees | url = https://variety.com/2017/film/news/authorized-lou-gehrig-biopic-luckiest-man-1202475552| magazine = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | year = 1942 | access-date = December 10, 2023}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine said the film was a "grade-A love story" done with "taste and distinction" though it was "somewhat overlong, repetitive, undramatic. Baseball fans who hope to see much baseball played in ''Pride of the Yankees'' will be disappointed. Babe Ruth is there, playing himself with fidelity and considerable humor; so are Yankees Bill Dickey, Bob Meusel, Mark Koenig. But baseball is only incidental. The hero does not hit a home run and win the girl. He is just a hardworking, unassuming, highly talented professional. The picture tells the model story of his model life in the special world of professional ballplayers."<ref>{{cite magazine| url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773361,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071113233811/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773361,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = November 13, 2007 | title = The New Pictures, Aug. 3, 1942 | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date = August 3, 1942 | access-date = June 19, 2009}}</ref> [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called it a "tender, meticulous and explicitly narrative film" that "inclines to monotony" because of its length and devotion to "genial details".<ref name="bosley"/>

{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|94|7.2|33|The equally tragic and heroic story of Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig is eloquently told here with an iconic star turn by Gary Cooper.|ref=yes|access-date=March 23, 2023}}

===Box office===
''The Pride of the Yankees'' was among the top ten box office films of 1942,<ref>{{cite web|title=Best Movies of 1942|url=https://www.bestmoviesof.com/year/1942|website=Best Movies Of|access-date=July 22, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=1942 Top Grossing Movies|url=http://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/1942-top-grossing-movies/|website=Ultimate Movie Rankings|date=September 15, 2015 |access-date=June 2, 2017}}</ref> earning $3,332,000 in [[Theatrical rental|theater rentals]] from the United States and Canada and an additional $855,000 from foreign rentals.<ref name="tevlin"/><ref name="tevlina"/> Despite its wide popularity, RKO took a loss of $213,000 on the film due to the small distribution fee that Samuel Goldwyn had negotiated with the studio. All of Goldwyn's pictures produced a loss for RKO no matter how much money they took in; but the studio considered the arrangement acceptable, because its association with Goldwyn lent prestige to RKO, and enhanced sales of its own movies.<ref name="uni">Jewell, RB. ''Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures''. University of California Press, 2016, p. 17. {{ISBN|0520289668}}</ref>