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Thanks for those FWTBT shots, Angie! Those captures were wonderful!!

That look from Fay Wray is the same look I'd give if I came face to face with Gary. After that...I'd faint! It's the deer in the headlight look, girls! **Nods** We know this look well...

Wow! That's amazing, April! I'm so happy for you! When you do get to meet her you absolutely must take some pictures. I bet you were just bursting with excitement!

I wish he were getting a massage! I was hesitant on posting it, but I figured 'why not? It's on topic.' I like the back of his head, lol. I couldn't help but post it. Theresa, you know me, sis! Randomocities are my favorite!

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My goodness, so much information to process in the morning before my first cup of coffee! Thank you so much, John, for all your insightful information and for setting some of the rumors straight here on the official Gary Cooper Forum (I think we've earned that title). The internet can be such a helpful tool at times, but it can also set ya' back due to all the rumors and lies people spread around (mostly on the IMDb message boards). Thank you again! I can't wait to hear more.

Yes I know you loved that movie Kim, and I have to thank you for pointing out all the parts to me that has turned me into a big fan of it as well as I wasn't always. In fact, I thought it was an average film of his the first time I watched it but it is one of the movies of his that gets better with each viewing. I think it is one of my top ten favorites now and I never get tired of watching any of his comedies. Ball of Fire, Bluebeard's Eigth wife and Desire I can watch over and over and over again and they never lose there abiltiy to entertain me. These movies along with Cary Grant comedies are the best things to watch when I am feeling down. I surely hope that the rumors are ture that both Desire and Bluebeard's Eigth Wife will be released in a DVD box set next year as this will open them up to a great many more people to enjoy as they are never shown on TV. Desire is not really a comedy I don't think but Gary Cooper's singing in the car scenes sure makes it one for me. It's a movie that I can't tire from watching over and over again. Along with your list of comedies I must add Casanova Brown; that one is just too cotton-pickin' adorable! My whole family adores it... I'm not sure if this is true: but Fran?ois Truffaut said that Miriam Hopkins was supposed to take the role as Nicole de Loiselle. I am so glad they chose Claudette.

If Ninotchka is even half as good as Bluebeard's Eigth Wife, I am sure I will love it. I don't know if I appreciated it that much on first viewing, but when I started making some audio clips for Kim (Mrs. Cooper), I grasped the true brilliance of this before it's time comedy. There's so many classic comedy lines in that movie for Gary. My favorite is the below one where he is trying unsussesfully to use the power of his mind to change things: "I feel fine; It was a nice day yesterday, it's a nice day today, it'll be a nice day tomorrow. I feel fine, I feel fine, I feel very fine! " How do you feel, Mr. Brandon. "Not so good." "We have mutton stew today..." "Yeuck, I hate mutton stew. ...I liked mutton stew yesterday, I like mutton stew today, I'll like mutton stew tomorrow...(begins to eating it) Yeuck." That movie was sheer hilarity throught-and-through! His facial expressions, his spot-on comebacks and the sharpness of both his and Claudette's deepenening hatred for one another was perfect for the film -- it was too funny! That quote is one of my absolute favorites; I say it all the time when I'm in a stressful situation! haha -- and it works.

I sometimes think that there are two parallel universes now, our (so-called) real world, and our online world. Scientists have finally been proven wrong; because you're right, John: there is another world out there...and it's called the cyber world. Phones, mail boxes, stationery envelopes and pens are beginning to be obsolete; and it'll only be a matter of time until Back to the Future is a proven fact.

frankie, ill lend you my hanky with gardenias embroidered on it. heehee! heehee! Yeah...and she sewed it herself!

Are you calling me a hillbilly? (ha!). Technically I'm a hick b/c I'm from the prairie and it's flat, no hills. I'm not calling you a hillbilly! lol, I'm calling the tick-pickers hillbillies!

I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers And I'd like to check you for ticks It's a hillbillies version of a romantic evening.

But there's whole ?nother me That you need to see Go checkout MySpace LOL. This is so depressing! When I get home I kiss my mom And she fixes me a snack Preschool flashbacks. That one just struck me funny! But I grow another foot and I lose a bunch of weight Every time I login Ha...ha...ha. Angie, you find the most bizarre songs! I love it!!

We're definite basket cases. I don't know Kim, I love purses (I gotta a ton of them) so maybe I'll be a purse case - ha! Those are even more dangerous! But since we're sisters...good heavens, must mean Theresa and I are one too! **Gasps**

What in the world? Am I missing somet--I'm gonna stop asking that from now on. Just smile and nod along.

Ladies, we are basket cases, it's official. I'd rather be a basket case than a purse

What are you doing to me, Kim???!! Those pictures just about sent me under my desk and my PC into overload! Pally, I'm lying right under that table with ya' -- as unconscious as a tranqualized elephant. And it's--it's nice down here. Cozy and unthreatening.

Hi Theresa! I watch Coop's expressive eyes, too, but---and I've told this to Angie before---it's his hands I'm always getting mesmerized by. They're simply hypnotic to me, hee! His eyes were beautiful -- so alluring and magnetic (and we've gotten on this subject so many times, everyone knows how we feel about them ); but not many people realize how amazing his hands were! The way he wraps his fingers around the cigarrette, delicately. Amd when he pulls a woman in for a kiss -- the way he grabs her neck (not forcefully or harsh, mind you) it's oh-so romantic. I can't help but melt.. Phew! Okay, I'm done. lol, I'm sorry -- I get carried away sometimes. Now, even though I find his hands incredibly amazing...I am absolutely and utterly obsessed with men who are tall. It's the height, then the hands, then the eyes and lips and hair. lol, He had it all! He just towered over the women, yet he wasn't overwhelming; because he was sweet, gentle, and kind. He crouched a lot, too. He was teased so much as a child, it just broke my heart when I found that out

So when are you gonna venture over to that dangerous noir forum, Mrs. Goody-Goody Gumdrops? You better be careful. That's exactly why I'm taking my sweet old time about it, Mr. Apple-A-Day-Keeps-Peter-Lorre-Away. I bruise easily...and I just have to make sure I have my armor on tight so I'll be protected. They may be kind and gentle to begin with, but once they find out yer' against 'em...well, let's just say: Karloff's ice box wouldn't be the best place to spend Holloween.

Yes, what was Swindell smoking...I mean thinking, when he wrote that? Same thing Jeffrey Meyers was smoking when he wrote his book. ...It must be an author thing. Was it you---or Kimmy---or someone else who did that YouTube clip of the scenes from Saratoga Trunk? I posted that in another classic movies forum and everyone thought it was one of the sexiest things they'd ever seen! That was Angie! The YouTube Queen of Gary videos! Angie, you're incredible with those videos, sis; lemme' tell ya'. I've got family members lined up on the floor after they finish gawking at those videos of yours...

I contributed about 500 of those posts on Friday night. Well then, a congratulations is in order for you as well! 500 posts, that's quite a lot for someone who was just "passing by." By now, I'm guessing you probably know more about Gary than you'd care to -- or even thought possible! But it does save on buying a whole bookstore of biographies on him, then sifting out some of the junk. *cough* Jeffrey Meyers *cough, cough*. We're thrilled (noired) to have you here with us, Mr. Grimes, and your contribution to this thread is most impressive. Cheers for another 500 more!

Did I scare you off? I hope not. I guess you're recharging. Scare me? Hardly. It's been difficult to stay away from your stimulating conversations, Mr. Grimes! Recharging is the perfect word for it. I'm trying to catch up on some much needed sleep! Between the story Angie and I have going, house-work and trying my best to keep up the speed of this monsterous growing thread...I'd predict I'll be recharging til the end of winter! But I'll pop in once in a while and contribute some of my knowledge and personal views on certain topics pertaining this incredible man. Though Angie, John, Theresa, April, and Dan will keep you pretty well occupied in my abesence. I'm glad you're gentle. I'm gonna hold you to that. By the way, you don't think the combination of hopeless romantic and femme fatale is a deadly mix, do you? It seems like a perfect plan. It is a deadly mix, Mr. Grimes...to those who don't know what they're doing. You seem to be wise; so I'm sure you'll have no difficulty in handling the two brilliantly and might I add...cautiously?

Wow, what a milestone, you guys!

I do like The Hanging Tree. Even though everyone says he was evil in that film...I couldn't see it! I just adore that quote from Elizabeth (who's blind): "Your hands are very large and gentle. You must have long legs because you cross the room in three steps."