[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

Good point! These more recent releases have better probabilities for generating extra material.

[Composers - Film Music]

I can't find it anymore for some reason. It was definitely on that site and I found it while doing a search for Alex North's score to Hard Contract.

 

Miss G

[Composers - Film Music]

>> My favorite film composer is Jerry

> Goldsmith, who I find to be the most versitile.

 

I really love his score for Sinatra's movie, The Detective, and it's one of those soundtracks I'm longing to have. I think it's crazy it's not available, considering it's Goldsmith behind the music, considering it's Sinatra's in the movie.

 

????

 

Miss G

[Composers - Film Music]

Thanks for posting that link---I've read a couple of articles on it in the past, including their lists of the "top 100 soundtracks never released". They included a couple of movies which I have always thought had music worthy of a cd but never even had an initial release onto LP.

 

 

Miss G

[ROBERT MONTGOMERY ? OR DICK POWELL ?]

Beeeeauutiful picture of adorable Bobby M!!

 

I know what you mean about The Divorcee---I will go even further and say I wanted Norma to stay with him!

[ROBERT MONTGOMERY ? OR DICK POWELL ?]

Robert Montgomery, definitely! Love him. And I'm in my early thirties.

 

Miss G

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

I'm sure you will have plenty of reading here to catch up on when you return from Florida!

 

You are right about that British site---it has some pictures I've never seen before and they aren't too badly priced. Thanks for the links!

[Box sets]

Beautiful! And they have some truly great movies contained in them---wish they were more readily availalbe.

[Box sets]

Thank you, filmlover.

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

I got my "The Complete Films of Gary Cooper" in the mail, and guess what! I ordered a paperback version but the one they sent me is the hardcover! Yippee!!! I only got to flip thru it but my new shelves were installed this morning and I already have a special place picked out on the "Gary Cooper" shelf!

 

That book by Kirk Douglas has really piqued my curiosity! I might try to look it up in the library.

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

Thanks for the update on Maria, Dan! I hope that the materials they already put together for The Hanging Tree will see the light of day somehow. And I guess the High Noon documentary is a done deal so we haven't lost that, either.

 

Miss G

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

Thanks, Dan, for the background on They Came to Codura---I had no idea it originally ran so much longer nor that there were those bleaker endings. I'm sorry it was cut but I couldn't have stood it to see him die at the end; not after all that suffering!

 

I do hope they can gather the missing footage together one day and include it as bonus material on a future dvd. Like you say, this is a truly underrated movie and deserves better than the bare-bones issue it currently has.

 

I just realized that Vera Cruz will be in that new box set. And I just bought it separately. I may return it, since it's still unwrapped.

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

Thanks for posting the article, Dan. I had already formed a pretty clear picture in my mind of Rocky's dominating streak, and I think Gary probably was attracted to that quality in the beginning---Clara Bow, the Countess Di Frasso and certainly Lupe all had overwhelming personalities as well. But this is the first I've heard she kept his friends out of the house---I presume those were the stunt people or lower-echelon actors?? Well, well. There's always vinegar with the greens!

 

Miss G

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

Glad you liked it, C---I thought it was adorable.

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

I had seen the picture before and didn't know it was him either. I wonder what he was having such a raucous laugh over?

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

I love Friendly Persuasion, too. It's funny, because my favorite non-Fordian John Wayne movie is about Quakers, Angel and the Bad Man (which was remade into a TV movies starring Naomi Watts). And then Gary marries a Quaker in High Noon. I think the clash between the two extremes of life values makes for interesting story lines and character development.

 

Miss G

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

[nobr]A very uncharacteristic picture, and it made the cover:[/nobr]

 

[nobr][/nobr]

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

[nobr]With Lupe Velez, from Wolf Song: [/nobr]

 

[nobr][/nobr]

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

[nobr]As a young cowboy, with Lois Wilson from The Thundering Herd (1925): [/nobr]

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

You have probably all seen this, but I couldn't resist. The little cowboy, aged 2:

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

[nobr]Hi Anne! It's hard for me to decide, too, but I probably lean toward his cowboy roles because he seems so authentically "western" to me and I find that exciting and different. [/nobr]

 

[nobr]I'd hate to have to live on the difference, though! [/nobr]

 

[nobr]Miss G[/nobr]

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

I hope you had a nice time at Grandmothers, Coopsgirl.

 

I'm glad you liked LITA...I love the music Billy Wilder used---"Hot Paprika" and "Fascination" are perfect for the setting and the romance.

 

P.S. It was on this day in 1953 Gary won his Oscar for High Noon.

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

Thanks for finding more lovely photos, Mrs. C. They really enrich this thread.

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

What a treasure to find!!!

[Any Gary Cooper Fans?]

That book is probably waiting for me at the Post Office. After the blizzard is over here in NYC, I'll carefully pick me way there and collect it. Can't wait to read over it.

 

Miss G