Having just saw this (it ended about 30 minutes ago on TCM) I have to wonder that because of when it was made (just when Ruth was joining the Yankees) who or what was the driving force behind the movie? After all Ruth was not yet that famous to warrant this treatment or am I just totally wrong?
shareI'd like to know more about it too. What is up with those corny quotes? Why are they attributed to strange people like they are important quotations??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headin%27_Home
The film is available on a two-DVD set called Reel Baseball on Kino films.
The movie was made under the auspices of Colonel Jacob Ruppert...a second generation beer baron who owned the Yankees and had just purchased Ruth from the Red Sox...thereby engendering the curse of Boston baseball lore....Ruppert always had an eye on the bottom line and knew that this story would go down better with the public....especially potential Yankee fans....than the real story of his early upbringing on the Baltimore docks where his father ran a waterfront bar where young George was constantly exposed to the rowdy behavior and practices of merchant seamen and dockwallopers....inevitably George became incorrigible as a result and his father was forced to turn him over to St Mary's Industrial School for Boys there in Baltimore at the age of only 7.....he stayed there till he was 19 when local baseball scouts discovered him....so this alternative narrative of Ruth's life was concocted for purely PR purposes and Ruth went on to live happily ever after....until he didn't.
shareThey're not quotes nor are they attributed to strange people. In silent films, when introducing a character, it was common to show the actor's name on that intertitle card. So when there's some cornball text describing a person and a person's name at the bottom, it's the name of the actor playing that character.
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