Jogadores de beisebol em 1911, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1920, 1921, 1927, 1942
O Guia da Cultura Popular dos Estados Unidos (2001) de Ray Broadus Browne e Pat Browne diz:
As Linda K. Fuller has noted, "The real story of the success of baseball films is not the batting box, but at the box office. From the beginning, filmmakers were quick to realize the added box-office potential of the day's baseball stars, so it wasn't long before some of the began appearing, usually as themselves, in dramatized films as well as in newsreels." Ever since Hal Chase played himself in a 1911 film [Hal Chase's Home Run], followed the next year by Chief Bender, Jack Coombs, and Rube Olding in The Baseball Bug, others joined the film fun: Christy Mathewson in Love and Baseball (1914), Mike Donlin and John McGraw in Right Off the Bat (1915), Ty Cobb in Somewhere in Georgia (1916), Frank Baker in Home Run Baker's Double (1914), Jack Johnson in As the World Rolls On (1921), and Babe Ruth in Babe Comes Home (1927), as well as a number of shorts produced by Universal Pictures, like Fancy Curves, Just Pals, and Slide, Babe, Slide. Also, Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Ralph Houk, White Ford, and other actual players have made film appearances.
100 Coisas que os fãs do Yankees devem saber & Faça antes que morram (2012) por David Fischer diz:
Ruth also played himself in 1920 in the film Heading Home, and he played a fictionalized version of himself seven years later in the movie The Babe Comes Home, as the character Babe Dugan. In retirement, Ruth played himself in the 1942 movie The Pride of the Yankees, based on Lou Gehrig's life.
Mas essas partes eram mais do que apenas uma participação especial?
Pelo menos o papel de Hal Chase em Hal Run Run de Chase (1911) foi mais que um cameo :
... in which the leading role is played by the famous First Baseman and Manager of the New York American League Team...
Da mesma forma, Frank "Home Run" Baker desempenhou o papel principal em Home Run Baker's Double (1914). Aqui está uma conta do" photoplay ", e certamente soa como uma história fictícia de um jogador de baseball, seu doppelganger e alguns trapaceiros.
Amor e beisebol (1914), de acordo com a Nova York Tempos :
Legendary baseball player Christy Mathewson played "himself" in the Bison two-reeler Love and Baseball.
Aqui está um artigo de 1914 sobre a história .
Heading Home (1920) ( assistir online ) estrelam Babe Ruth como uma versão fictícia de si mesmo . Wikipedia :
It attempts to create a mythology surrounding the life of baseball player Babe Ruth... Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized.
E do IMDb :
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
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If this is the "true story" of Babe Ruth, then I am a Llama!
Gângsteres de caubóis em 1912, 1914, 1918
During its first years of statehood, Oklahoma itself temporarily became a center for filming westerns; characteristically, given the wild-and-woolly reputation of the first whites who had come to Indian Territory, the peculiar western subgenre that developer there was the cowboy-gang narrative produced and performed by the ex-gangsters themselves: reformed train robber Al Jennings played himself in The Bank Robbery (1914), and Emmett Dalton (last survivor of the notorious Dalton gang) played himself in The Last Stand of the Dalton Boys (1912) and Beyond the Law (1918).