Everything about The Jackie Robinson Story totally explained
The Jackie Robinson Story is a
1950 biographical film starring baseball legend
Jackie Robinson as himself. Robinson became the first
African American Major League Baseball player of the modern era in 1947. Even during its release in the era of segregation, the film did remarkably at the box office. Robinson's achievement has been recognized by the
retirement by each Major League team of his
uniform number,
42.
The original tagline was
"You'll HIT With Him! You'll RUN With Him! You'll SLIDE With Him!"
On
April 19,
2005,
20th Century Fox and
Legend Films released a
colorized version of the film, donating a portion of the proceeds to
The Jackie Robinson Foundation, a charity which benefits education for gifted students. An "official" version remains in release by MGM Home Entertainment (whose sister company United Artists produced this film).
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