RKO Radio Pictures’ The Pride of the Yankees ranks as one of Hollywood’s greatest sports movies. Gary Cooper stars as Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees baseball slugger who died of ALS at age 37. Here are 21 The Pride of the Yankees movie trivia items and fun facts…

1. The Pride of the Yankees is based on the book Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees by Paul Gallico (1897-1976), published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1942. Gallico also authored the novel The Poseidon Adventure (1969), which was turned into a feature length film in 1972.

Twentieth Century Fox's taut thriller Sleeping with the Enemy was released to movie theaters in 1991. Julia Roberts stars as Laura Burney, an abused wife who fakes her death and begins a new life in Iowa. Here are 21 Sleeping with the Enemy ultimate movie trivia items and interesting facts...

RKO Radio Pictures' Beyond Tomorrow was released in 1940. The movie stars Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith and Charles Winninger as three dead businessmen who return as ghosts to aid a struggling young couple (Richard Carlson, Jean Parker) during the holiday season. Here are 21 Beyond Christmas super movie trivia items and interesting facts...

Warner Bros.-Seven Arts' Cool Hand Luke escaped into movie theaters in 1967. Paul Newman (1925-2008) has the title role, playing a rebellious convict hell-bent on escaping from a southern chain gang. Here are 21 Cool Hand Luke classic movie trivia items and interesting facts...

1. Cool Hand Luke is based on the 1965 novel of the same name by Donn Pearce. A former safecracker and burglar, Pearce served two years on a Florida chain gang while in his early 20s. Pearce makes a cameo appearance in the film as Sailor.

United Artists’ From Russia with Love was released to movie theaters in 1963. Directed by Terence Young and starring Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendariz, Lotte Lenya and Robert Shaw, From Russia with Love features Connery as the intrepid British secret agent James Bond, whose latest assignment pits him against SPECTRE as he attempts to locate a top-secret Russian decoding machine. Made for $2 million, From Russia with Love premiered in London on October 10, 1963.

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Warner Bros’. The Outlaw Josey Wales galloped into movie theaters in 1976. Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Paula Trueman and Sam Bottoms, The Outlaw Josey Wales features Eastwood in the title role, a renegade Missouri farmer/Confederate guerilla hunted by Union troops following the Civil War. The Outlaw Josey Wales went into general release on June 30, 1976, earning a single Academy Award nomination for Best Original Music Score (Jerry Fielding).

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Gangster movies have been a Hollywood staple since the early days of the silent cinema. The first recognized gangster movie is D.W. Griffith’s The Musketeers of Pig Alley, released by the General Film Company on October 31, 1912, and starring Elmer Booth and Lillian Gish. Since that first silent film effort, gangster or "gangsta" movies have been a highly visible and oftentimes bloody component of the motion picture landscape.

John Dahl's Rounders journeyed into movie theaters in 1998. Matt Damon and Edward Norton star as a pair of young poker players, plying their trade in the underground gambling clubs of New York City. Here are 21 Rounders movie trivia items and interesting facts...

Ricky Nelson reigned as one of the hottest teen idols of the 1950s and ’60s. Born Eric Hilliard Nelson in Teaneck, New Jersey, on May 8, 1940, Nelson died in a plane crash on December 31, 1985. His many hits include such rock ‘n’ roll standards as "Poor Little Fool," "Stood Up," "Lonesome Town" and "Teenage Idol."

Here are ten valuable Ricky Nelson music, movie and TV collectibles that are sure to interest pop culture memorabilia collectors. Now taking the stage once again the incomparable Ricky Nelson…

The widower father has been a favorite character in television history. They're single dads, raising or interacting with their brood in a variety of TV shows ranging from westerns to dramas to situation comedies. Here are TV’s best widower fathers from the long history of the tube. Take heart, single dads out there, as these fathers did okay by their kids...

Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright, Bonanza (NBC, 1959-73)