Do you know the baseball movie title...?!
Question: I heard Ronald Regan was offered to play in one baseball movie, but he didn't for some reason.. (he wasn't good enough or whatever)
I don't know which one, so I don't know who actually played in that movie.
Have you heard of this story?
Do you know which movie it is?
Answers: I heard Ronald Regan was offered to play in one baseball movie, but he didn't for some reason.. (he wasn't good enough or whatever)
I don't know which one, so I don't know who actually played in that movie.
Have you heard of this story?
Do you know which movie it is?
I'll have a look ... Knute Rockne (All American) 1940!
I think you'll find thats what you want. He was turned down for the main part but got a smaller significant part.
He later starred in a baseball film called 'The WinningTeam' 1952
ps reagan wrote a screenplay for a film about Knute Rockne, the legendary football coach at the University of Notre Dame who revolutionized the game of football. A former football player himself, Reagan wanted to act the part of the inspirational Notre Dame player George Gipp in the movie. To sell his idea, he took the ideas for the screenplay to his bosses at Warner Brothers, but he was disappointed they turned him down. Surprisingly, he read in a magazine some time later that Warner Brothers would soon begin production on a new movie–about Knute Rockne! He raced down to the studio to audition for the part of Gipp, but was told that he was too small for the part. He pleaded with the producer, showed him a photograph of himself in his old high school football uniform, and won the part. Although he wasn't in much of the finished production, Knute Rockne, All American, his A movie acting premiere did win him acclaim and boosted him to stardom.
The only movie I can think of is Pride of the Yankees, but I can't find anything about Ronald Reagan turning down the part of Lou Gehrig.