coopsgirl
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You're cracking me up!!! I haven't seen that many of Robert Preston's films but I didn't get that vibe from him
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I think too if they had just cut out the whole storyline involving Paulette Goddard and Preston Foster (there are too many Preston's in this movie!) it would have been a tighter picture. The couple of plot points that involve their characters which are actually important probably could've have just been re-written and then it would have been a little shorter and maybe flowed a little better. There are just too many characters in this one and it doesn't flow together as well as it could have.
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Robert Preston definitely comes off as more the leading man in NWMP which does seem kinda weird. He was quite often a leading actor but not when he's matched up with Gary. I was also quite surprised when Madeliene Carroll ended up with Preston even though she was his girl through most of the pic. I'd have to dump him and skedaddle back to Tx with Gary. Dusty Rivers is a good name but my fave is Cole Harden from *The Westerner*.
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Many, many years ago we went to the Dr. Pepper and TX Rangers (cops not the baseball team
) museum that's also in Waco. The main thing I remember is how hot it was that day. We made the mistake of going during the summer. Oooh speaking of TX Rangers that makes me think of *Northwest Mounted Police* since Gary played a Texas ranger in it. Oh he was so cute in that one (but of course I really do say that about all his movies) and playing a Texan which I love :x. That is one dull movie though and even though it's just a little over two hours, it seems to go on forever. I think what bothers me the most about that one is there are long stretches with no Gary and I hate that. After about 15 minutes without him I start yelling at the tv 'where's Gary?!?!'. -
I remember drinking RC when I was a kid too, and of course Dr. Pepper which was invented in TX so we have to drink it
I hadn't seen most of those either and I'm bidding on the one with Marion Davies from *Operator 13*. I don't remember him ever looking like that during the movie so maybe that's from a scene that was cut or something. -
That's a beautiful pic of Gary and Gene!! Definitely a keeper. Yeah I'm still having problems with the board too, but in general my internet has been kinda wonky and slow at work for a couple days now so I'm sure that's also not helping. I found a ton of good pics this morning when I was on ebay and here they are.
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Is this the same Carol Lynley you're talking about? If so that's cool that you like her b/c she's very pretty.
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Yeah I'm sure they posed him such a way to get the angle and picture where he would look like him the most. Gary did favor his dad quite a bit and it's funny how different they were with regards to women. By all accounts his dad was quite conservative and very shy with women and was happy when Gary finally 'grew up' and got married. It is funny though how far the apple fell from the tree in that regard - ha!
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Well it's just so weird too that to be "twins" they actually knew each other and were friends. I saw my twin in a magazine ad once. It was probably around 10 years ago and my mom had a subscription to Better Homes and Gardens and she was looking through one of them and she saw an ad for cereal. It was a girl standing next to the sink in a kitchen and her dad was standing next to her and they were both holding bowls of cereal. This girl looked exactly like me!!! We had the same build, exact same face, same skin color, same hair color and even the same hair style. I could tell people it was me in that ad and they'd believe me. We were probably right around the same age too. It freaks me out everytime I look at it.
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I'm glad you liked the video! Hey I was perusing ebay this morning (a very dangerous thing for me b/c I have no willpower - ha!) and I found an ad for spark plugs with a pic of Slim Talbot and OH MY GOSH, the resemblance between him and Gary is uncanny!!!!!!!! He looks more like he could be Gary's brother than his own brother did.
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*I was looking back at some of the old posts to get up-to-speed and saw the posting with the photo of semi-naked (or was he completely in the buff) Gary from The Wolf Song, and WOW... it's too bad they can't release that one!*
Yeah, he was just wearing a smile in that one
. Parts of that film still survive but it's not complete so that one is pretty unlikely to be released. It's a shame too b/c that's the only film he did with Lupe Velez and as you probably know they were a hot Hollywood couple for a couple years after making *Wolf Song* and Gary even moved in with her for a while, very scandalous for the time. Here's some more pics from that one but he's fully clothed in these (darn it - ha!).
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Here's the scene from Alias Jesse James (1959) that has all the cameos in it, including Gary.
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I wasn't seeing the tags earlier but now I am so don't worry April, you're not just seeing things - ha! So far I'm not crazy about the new format either but maybe they'll get the bugs worked out pretty soon. The first tag that is coming up now is 'bunnies'. Not sure where that came from. Now if it said 'dehydrated buffalo' or 'silverback gorilla' that would make more sense
It's funny too Lamarr that you said that about his beautiful, troubled blue eyes. Even though most of his films were in b+w you could still see that his eyes were the most beautiful blue. Maybe it's just my mind playing tricks on me but I'm not gonna question it!! Theresa and I are both in the general Austin area where you're from too. I'm originally from Southeast Texas about 45 miles north of Houston but moved up here in '95 to go to college (Southwest Texas State, now just Texas State University) and I've stayed here ever since.
I can't wait to get home and watch Lauzi's video (stupid internet filter
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I saw your post in the 'fave chick flick' thread where you listed *Love in the Afternoon* and *Casanova Brown* and you said you thought they were probably Gary's only chick flicks or women's pictures. I thought I'd respond here instead of there since they may not appreciate us taking over their topic - ha!
He was reluctant to do *Seven Days Leave* b/c he thought it was a woman's picture and I guess that maybe he wouldn't be right for it or it wouldn't be right for his career. Who knows! Anyway he got really good reviews though and it is a good one.
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Yeah back when they did the actual update the forum looked different like it does today but only for a little while and then that same day it went back to looking like it always did. Then this morning I saw it looked different and the bold and other functions don't seem to work. I accidentally discovered how to bold something and that was by putting an asterisk and the beginning and end of it. I'm not sure how to do anything else though.
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*There is something about Gary that seems so modern.*
I've had that same thought too and I think we've talked about that before. It was just little things like his hairstyle and the clothes that he wore which make it seem like he could easily be around today. He didn't seem to be too trendy, but just had a good sense of style and wore nice suits and pretty regular looking casual clothes.
It's definitely okay to be 'goofy dreamy' about Gary. I think it's a good form of escapism. I mean you watch the news and it's just all so depressing and entertainment in general (music, movies, tv) has been going downhill for the most part for many, many years. It's fun to watch his movies (and other classic movies), old tv shows (like Andy Griffith and I Love Lucy), listen to old music (My fave is 30's-60's) and at least try to pretend that the world is a better place.
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Well Gary did have a great tan working in "Return to Paradise" and this actor has darker skin and blue eyes so maybe they can pull it off. It seems that he's too young though but I guess with makeup they could make him look a little older. I just thought of something funny too. In the old movie days white people were used for just about every other race and here we have a Samoan playing a caucasian - weird!!
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Welcome Lamarr70 and renthead3411!!! You are in the right place if you love Gary Cooper! We're all big fans of his movies and the man himself as you can tell.
And I definitely agree with you Lamarr70, Gary was the sexiest man ever :x
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSapkx2v6E
Well it took me a few days but I finally finished the slideshow I had been working on going through Gary's career. It's my fave so far (of course I really do say that about all of them
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Don't forget everybody TCM is showing Alias Jesse James tomorrow morning and Gary has a cameo appearance in it.
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I have never picked up on that mistake in Ten North Frederick and it's one of his that I rewatch the most and I usually catch that kind of stuff. I agree though that it doesn't take away from the enjoyment of the film. One of my fave lines from that one (I know it's one of Kim's too) is at the end where his son says 'he was a gentleman in a world with no further use for gentlemen'. That fits Gary perfectly and may be part of the reason he's not still as popular with today's audiences as some other classic film actors.
I'm glad to know those stories about Rocky not letting his friends in the house aren't true. I had suspected too that the reason she wasn't popular in Hollywood was that she just didn't fit that lifestyle. She seemed intelligent and classy and had values far different from most 'celebrities'.
That's a great story too about Gary and Rocky helping Peter Lawford and Dorothy Dandrigde go on their dates.
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He didn't offer any kind of real criticism on his post-'42 movies but just says they were no good. I'm definitely not going to take you seriously if you just say this movie was bad but don't offer any kind of real reason why you thouth it was bad. I kept find myself saying why did he write a book about Gary is he doesn't seem to like about half of his career.
You said it best too about when he began to criticize his looks beginning around '42. It came off as very catty and unnecessary. What really got me is how he said he looked older than his years in '42 yet in '43 he looks maybe the best he ever did (at least to me) in For Whom the Bell Tolls. I don't care who you are man or woman, you can't watch that movie and say that not's a good looking man.
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I definitely second Dan's wish John in hoping that one day you may write a book about Gary. Besides Maria's book I can imagine it would be the best one out there. I just flat out had to stop reading Swindell's Last Hero book b/c it was seriously raising my blood pressure.
I noticed a pattern in his reviews of Gary's movies that I didn't like. The ones that didn't do very well he criticized quite harshly so it seems as if maybe he didn't have his own opinion and just went by how well they did when they were released. I know I'm really biased in that I love pretty much all of his films but I do understand some were flops. But there's always something good to be found even in the so-called 'bad ones' which he failed to see.
What really got my goat is when he said Ingrid Bergman was the best thing about Saratoga Trunk and that Gary and Ingrid had better chemistry in For Whom the Bell Tolls. They were good together in that one but they are so great in Saratoga Trunk that I'm surprised my tv doesn't get overheated when I watch it
I mean the man is entitled to his opinion but once we hit 1942 he seems to have turned on Gary and I just can't read anymore.
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Why don't they just re-release the original and show it again in theaters?
You have read my mind!!!! Every time I see a remake advertised I say that same thing, quite loudly, to my tv. That's one of my fave 50s sci-fi films and there's no way it will be anywhere as good b/c like someone else already posted, they will probably dumb down the story and turn it into nothing more than 2 hours of CGI effects and lots of noisy explosions and other nonsense. Look at the recent remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (actually the 2nd remake of this film). It cost around $100 million to make and on it's opening weekend it only made $6 million.
I would definitely go see these films if there were simply re-released but I'm not paying down good money to see sub-par remakes.
) museum that's also in Waco. The main thing I remember is how hot it was that day. We made the mistake of going during the summer. Oooh speaking of TX Rangers that makes me think of *Northwest Mounted Police* since Gary played a Texas ranger in it. Oh he was so cute in that one (but of course I really do say that about all his movies) and playing a Texan which I love :x. That is one dull movie though and even though it's just a little over two hours, it seems to go on forever. I think what bothers me the most about that one is there are long stretches with no Gary and I hate that. After about 15 minutes without him I start yelling at the tv 'where's Gary?!?!'.
). She always makes great ones! She did a real good one for Morocco too and I don't think anybody posted it here so here it is.
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It is very frustrating how slow the site is. It took me several tries to get the screen to come up so I could respond. That's funny that your mom is still convinced that pic of Slim is Gary. It is really freaky!! Here's a cool story I found at the Fox news website about women who built planes during WWII. Since we like that time period I thought I'd share it here.
*Real-Life Rosie the Riveters Get Chance to Fly in Warplanes They Built*
Friday, August 31, 2007
NEW YORK ? Anne King was 19 and earning $12 a week in a dime store when she was recruited in 1942 to learn how to make airplane parts. She worked at Republic Aviation on Long Island as a mechanic and riveter on P-47 Thunderbolt fighters and other U.S. aircraft.
King and five other women who performed wartime factory work were to gather Friday at what is now Republic Airport in Farmingdale and take rides in a B-17 Flying Fortress and a B-24 Liberator "as a tribute to their war efforts," said Hope Kaplan, a spokeswoman for the American Airpower Museum on the grounds of the airport.
Exhibitions by vintage aircraft are holiday fixtures at the museum, but this is the first time any of the women, the "Rosie the Riveters" who helped build World War II aircraft, have had a chance to fly in them, Kaplan said.
King, who turns 85 on Saturday, said she was "not the least bit nervous" about her first flight in a vintage bomber.
"I'd like to ride in the B-24," said Josephine Rachiele, 82, was also scheduled to take a tribute flight. "My friend Bernadette's father was a waist gunner on a B-24, and I would like to tell her what it's like."
Rachiele recalled that when she first went to work as a riveter at Republic in 1943, "I didn't know a rivet from a nail, and it was so noisy that I was really frightened. The rivet guns shooting rivets and the drill press stomping on metal ? it was pandemonium."
At war's end, she said, the women were given the choice of staying or leaving so that returning servicemen could have the jobs. Rachiele quit, but returned in later years to Republic.
Georgette Feller, 86, said she was "already one step ahead" when she joined Republic Aviation as a riveter. "My father was an excellent mechanic, and I already knew how to use a rivet gun, and I could tell aluminum from steel," she said.
"It was a great job, but I had trouble with the man who was my first partner ? he said he wasn't happy working with a dizzy broad."
Feller knows Friday's flight is a great opportunity. "I'm at the end of my days, and I want every good experience I can have," she said. "That sounds like a good one for me."
While the actual number of women employed in defense plants is uncertain, historians say the war brought about 6 million women into the work force for the first time. They almost always made less money than men working at the same tasks.
In 1943, a promotional film using an actual riveter named Rose at Michigan's Willow Run bomber plant as its model popularized the "Rosie the Riveter" image. A song furthered the cause, as did a Saturday Evening Post cover by illustrator Norman Rockwell, depicting Rosie with her feet resting on a copy of Adolf Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf."
According to the Collings Foundation, a nonprofit "living history" organization based in Stow, Massachusetts, which owns the two bombers, the B-24 Liberator is the only one of 18,000 built during the war that remains in flyable condition today. Its B-17 Flying Fortress, which flew 100 missions over Europe including 18 raids on Berlin and was rescued from a salvage yard, is one of 14 still flying among 12,000 built. About a third were lost in combat.