Jackie Robinson played himself, and Ruby Dee played his wife in the mild-mannered 1950 bio-pic “The Jackie Robinson Story.”

The insults hurled from opposing players and “fans” include “liver lips” and watermelon cracks and holding up shoeshine boxes. “Hey boy, gimme a shine.”

The Branch Rickey and teammate and radio announcer (Red Barber) are all wrong. But it’s the real Jackie, soft, almost-mousy voiced, intense, hustling, and in every sense, “a gentleman,” which is what Rickey saw in him and chose him to integrate America’s Passtime.

I’m watching it on Bounce TV — but it’s on Youtube, too. Here it is.

In Brian Helgeland’s “42,” opening Friday, Chadwick Boseman plays Jackie.