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The Babe Ruth Story: Directed by Roy Del Ruth. With William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene. William Bendix suits up in Yankee flannels as the renowned pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth in a sports biopic that mixes facts with fiction.
Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American filmmaker. Early career. Silent film The Heart Snatcher (1920) directed by Roy Del Ruth for Fox Film Corporation. Beginning his Hollywood career as a writer for Mack Sennett in 1915, Del Ruth later directed his first short film Hungry Lions (1919) for the producer.
The Babe Ruth Story is a 1948 American biographical film about professional baseball player Babe Ruth (1895–1948), who achieved fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. However, most of the film, except for the basic details of Ruth's life and career achievements, was fictionalized.
Del Ruth next directed The Babe Ruth Story (1948), with William Bendix badly miscast as baseball legend Babe Ruth. Bending historical truths lest he offend Ruth's legacy, Del Ruth's biopic was rushed through production amidst news of the ailing Ruth's declining health.
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Oct 28, 2014 · Some were good, some not so good. But there is something of a consensus about the worst baseball movie ever made. The Babe Ruth Story, which premiered at the Astor Theater in New York on...
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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The Babe Ruth Story is a 1948 baseball film biography of Babe Ruth, the famed New York Yankees slugger. It stars William Bendix (New York Yankee batboy in the 1920s) as the ballplayer and Claire Trevor as his wife.
