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Sorry you were sick and I hope you're feeling better. I'm going to Florida for the Astros spring training this Friday and will be back late Tuesday night. I normally take my laptop so I can upload pics from my camera and free up space on the memory card but it's just a hassle to travel with it so I just bought an extra card. But that means that for days I'll be without the internet and that will be tough
I found a few websites this morning as I was surfing around that sell old movie posters. Some are originals and some are reproductions. A lot of them are out of my price range but they're still nice to look at since they did them in a such a different style back then. Some of these sites too have posters I've never seen before and even some for his silents.
This one is my fave though b/c it has four pages of beautiful photos for sale in various sizes and they are real cheap in most cases. It's a British site but you can click on US Dollars up at the top to see that price so I assume they also ship to the US.
http://www.moviemarket.com/Gary_Cooper_P200388_1/
It's nice that my job often has a lot of downtime while I am retrieving and processing data but sometimes it's gets me (and my bank account) into trouble when I find stuff like this
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That's a very interesting take on Lupe/Cooper/Rocky. Lupe was definitely not stable enough to deal with his infidelities. Unfortunately that was just part of who he was (probably his only flaw) and Rocky handled it with a lot of grace and forgiveness and I think ultimately it paid off as he came to the church and finally was faithful to her in the last years of their marriage.
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Let us know if those are good ones once you get them and have had a chance to read through them some. The one I recently finished by Hector Arce was good titled Gary Cooper: An Intimate Biography and you can find cheap copies on amazon. It's paperback and had some nice photos in the middle section.
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Thanks for the extra info about that one. I bet it would be interesting to see the original unedited version. It is a good movie and I like how he was once a coward but then becomes the hero.
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I like They Came to Cordura too but the ending is so hard to watch. My mom and I watched that one together and we were both squirming in our seats and just about in tears. I really don't like watching him get hurt (even though it's just a movie) and to know that he was sick at the time and that it's actually him being dragged by that railroad cart just makes it worse.
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Coop was in the top ten box office 18 times in his career which is second only to John Wayne who I think made it 25 times but again he lived longer and made more movies. It seems after the little lull Gary went through in the late 40's and very early 50's ended after High Noon as he stayed very popular the rest of his career.
It is sad that so many people are forgotten especially someone like Gary who made so many great films and was the biggest star of his day. I mean I had only seen Sgt. York and Pride of the Yankees until this past December. I'm just glad I finally realized what I had been missing. Watching his movies has opened up a whole new world to me of actors and directors like Jean Arthur, Barbara Stanwyck, and Frank Capra. They showed two of Capra's early films with Stankwyck this morning and I recorded them and can't wait to watch them.
Speaking of old singers it really steams my beans that oldies stations are being phased out all across the country. We lost our a couple years here in Austin and it was replaced with another mix station. There are already enough of those. That was my dad's fave kind of music and it was always playing at our house and I love it. I mean it's just wrong that I can't turn on the radio and hear Elvis, Buddy Holly, or The Beatles
I took matters into my own hands though and bought an mp3 player and I have a better selection of oldies on than they ever played on the radio anyway 
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I found a ton of Gary Cooper articles in Time magazines archive search. Here's their address. Just type in Gary Cooper in the search thing at the top of the website.
Here are some of the more interesting ones and as many as I have here there are tons more on the website. Sorry to take up so much space but I hope y'all will find them interesting.
Shirt Tale
Monday, Jan. 31, 1938
From Paramount Pictures' publicity department: "Gary Cooper sent one of his shirt tails to a Ladies' Aid Society in Rapid City, S. D., in response to the following letter: 'In an effort to raise money for the church, we are making ladies' kitchen aprons out of shirt tails of noted men. We would appreciate it very much if you would be good enough to send us one of your shirt tails. We thank you very much and hope to be able to reciprocate some time.' "
From the United Press at Rapid City: "Local Ladies' Aid Societies deny they are or have been interested in Gary Cooper's shirt tails . . . ask . . . where the story originated so they may take steps to quash it."
Faces & Figures
Monday, Feb. 19, 1945
Gary Cooper, for the "wonderful shape of his head, his size and his simplicity," won the top spot on a list of the "ten handsomest men in the U.S." picked by Boston Sculptress Katharine Ward Lane. The other nine:
Philip Merivale, for "a burning quality and a tragic cast to his face."
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd: "most attractive, particularly for his small, aristocratic features."
Gregor Piatigorsky: "Marvelously proportioned, though massive."
Fredric March, for the "serious sincerity which he exudes, and for his beautiful wide brow."
Lieut. General Mark Clark: "I love his long nose; he's a definite American type."
Raymond Massey, for his "marvelous frame and bony structure, and a very expressive face."
General Douglas MacArthur: his "classic, regular features make him seem much younger than his years."
Cary Grant: "a versatile as well as handsome man. He can be interpreted in many different ways."
Paul V. McNutt: "a very good-looking person with a well-balanced head. . . ."
Top Draws
Monday, Jan. 05, 1953
To a theater owner, the top stars in cinema are the ones who bring in the most customers. Last week, after polling the nation's exhibitors, Motion Picture Her ald announced its annual list of the top box-office draws for 1952: 1) Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis (after only three years of moviemaking; they hit second place in 1951) 2) Gary Cooper (among the top ten for 13 years) 3) John Wayne (No. i in 1950 and 1951) 4) Bing Crosby (No. 5 last year; like Cooper, among the first ten for 13 years)
5) Bob Hope
6) James Stewart
7) Doris Day
8) Gregory Peck
9) Susan Hayward (among the top ten for the first time; she was igth last year)
10) Randolph Scott
From Time Magazine Nov. 28, 1932
Strong, silent, homely Film Actor Gary Cooper asked the New York Supreme Court for an injunction restraining Sheffield Farms Co. (dairy products) from further circulation of an advertisement bearing his name and picture. He claimed damage to his reputation because he was represented as drinking milk "to build up his health and strength."
From Time Magazine July 27, 1936
Sued. Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn; by Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor, for Paramount Pictures Corp.; for $5,000,000 damages arising from Goldwyn's "theft" of Paramount's topflight Cinemactor Gary Cooper; in Los Angeles.
From Time Magazine Apr 10, 1939
Since 1935 wealthy residents of Hollywood and its swank suburbs have been apprehensive of an unapprehended "phantom burglar." Last week in San Francisco the phantom, one Ralph R. Graham, was finally captured, readily identified the looted houses. A few of his victims: Packer George A. Hormel; Cinemactors Gary Cooper, Tyrone Power, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard; Director Frank Capra. Complained the phantom: "All of ... the movie boys and girls whose playthings I swiped . . . except Fanny Brice exaggerated the amount of stuff taken." Estimated total loot: $2,500,000.
From Time Magazine Nov 15, 1943
Judge Charles Henry Cooper, 70-year-old father of Cinemactor Gary Cooper. The draft board that sent him his induction notice discovered it had summoned the wrong Charles Henry Cooper when the septuagenarian strode in and cried: "Well, here I am; when do I leave?"
From Time Magazine Nov 29, 1948
In Hollywood, Bing Crosby, 44, was named the nation's favorite movie star, according to the annual poll taken by the trade magazine Boxoffice. Bing barely edged out Ingrid Bergman, 31, who had won the top spot for the past two years. Other favorites, in order of their popularity: Gary Cooper, 47, Claudette Colbert, 43, Clark Gable, 47.
From Time Magazine Aug 22, 1949
It is the same with the male animal?even with such solid 40-plus examples as Clark Gable (a big star since 1932), Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Cagney, Gary Cooper. These veterans are still expert performers, but their days as high-voltage box-office attractions are numbered.
From Time Magazine June 29, 1953
At France's sixth annual Kermesse aux Etoiles (Carnival of Stars), President Vincent Auriol awarded French Oscars (bronze statuettes of Winged Victory) to a number of movie stars, including Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck. When his award was announced, Hollywood's Cooper applauded vigorously. After nudging him into silence, Cinemactress Gisele Pascal explained her tall friend's embarrassing antics to the astonished crowd: "He doesn't understand a word of French."
From Time Magazine Jan 11, 1954
Motion Picture Herald polled exhibitors for their favorite box-office draws for 1953. To nobody's surprise, most of the favorites were oldtimers, and eight of the top ten spots were held by men. The only newcomer?much-publicized Marilyn Monroe?placed sixth. The big ten: 1) Gary Cooper. 2) Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, 3) John Wayne. 4) Alan Ladd?up from 16th place. 5) Bing Crosby, 6) Marilyn Monroe, 7) James Stewart, 8) Bob Hope. 9) Susan Hayward. 10) Randolph Scott.
From Time Magazine Jan 10, 1955
Motion Picture Herald, which polls the men who should know?the exhibitors?found John Wayne the No. 1 box-office draw, although Wayne made only two films eligible in 1954: Hondo and The High and the Mighty. Runners-up: Martin and Lewis, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, Marilyn Monroe. Alan Ladd, William Holden (first time to figure in the first ten), Bing Crosby. Jane Wyman (first time), Marlon Brando (first time).
From Time Magazine Sep 5, 1955
In a resplendent highlight of Long Island's summer social season, widening Automogul Henry Ford II and his petite wife Anne, togged for a make-believe Arabian night, met up with tall-on-the-camel Cinemactor Gary (Beau Geste) Cooper at a Baghdad ball in Southampton. For his resemblance to a sheik on his way to a shower bath, Arabian Knight Cooper copped first prize in the men's division for his getup's elegant authenticity.
From Time Magazine Jan 7, 1957
The "best" actors of 1956 were not mentioned in the Motion Picture Herald's poll to determine the year's biggest box-office draws. Herald's top-ten ratings, including only two actresses and reflecting the opinions of some 16,000 theater owners in the U.S. and Canada: 1) William Holden, 2) John Wayne, 3) James Stewart, 4) Burt Lancaster, 5) Glenn Ford, 6) Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, 7) Gary Cooper, 8) Marilyn Monroe, 9) Kim Novak, 10) Frank Sinatra.
From Time Magazine Jan 13, 1958
Proving, as usual, that quality does not necessarily jingle cash registers, Motion Picture Herald posted the results of its poll of some 10,000 U.S. and Canadian theater owners. Their selection of the top ten box-office pullers featured male dreamboats of all ages, indicated that teen-agers are calling the moviegoing public's tune, with nary a cinemactress in the top ten for the first time since the Herald started its balloting 26 years ago. Scratched in the past year: Marilyn Monroe and Kim Novak. The new all-male marquee names hailed as dollar signs by exhibitors: 1) Rock Hudson, 2) John Wayne, 3) Pat Boone, 4) Elvis Presley, 5) Frank Sinatra, 6) Gary Cooper, 7) William Holden, 8) James Stewart, 9) Jerry Lewis, 10) Yul Brynner.
From Time Magazine May 4, 1959
The Vatican confirmed that mellowing (57) Cinemactor Gary Cooper, previously an Episcopalian, became a Roman Catholic early in April. Glowed his Roman Catholic wife Veronica, married to Coop for 26 years: "He's very happy about it."
From Time Magazine Jan 20, 1961
The Friars Club of Hollywood gave a testimonial party for Gary Cooper, had everyone from Sam Goldwyn to Dean Martin and California Governor Pat Brown on hand to participate in the big salaam. Those who tried to stick to the subject very nearly drowned him in glue. "A Gary Cooper is rare, there is only one," recited Poet Audrey Hepburn, "and there will never be another under the sun." Milton Berle risked a hail of hot lead by saying: "Coop got his first Green Stamps from Polly Adler." Carl Sandburg announced that he and Sinatra had founded an organization in Cooper's honor called GADIEP (Grand Association of the Descendants of Illiterate European Peasants). Said Cooper, legs stretching contentedly from the dais to the far side of the room: "If someone were to ask me am I the luckiest man in the world, the answer would be?Yup."
From Time Magazine Mar 20, 1964 (interview with Patricia Neal)
Soon she was making The Fountainhead with Gary Cooper. Those long deep looks at Cooper, still remembered viscerally by every man who saw the picture, were remembered most by Cooper himself, who for a time shed his marital responsibilities, ripped off his merit badges, and fell head-over-spurs in love, beginning one of those muted Olympian affairs that everyone knows about but few discuss.
"I was very much in love with him," she remembers. "But I got myself into a sticky mess which couldn't work, didn't work, and never should have worked. He was the most gorgeously attractive man. Bright, too. Although some people didn't think so. I lived this secret life for several years. I was so ashamed; yet there was the fact of it. I had made few close friends. All I had, there in Hollywood, was that one love. I'm sorry for any damage that was done?and I'm sure there was. You always think no one is going to get hurt, but someone always does?lots of people."
From Time Magazine Apr 22, 1966
Married. Maria Cooper, 28, willowy daughter of the late Gary Cooper; and Byron Janis, 38, Pittsburgh pianist lionized by the Russians during 1960 and 1962 tours; he for the second time; in Woodbridge, Conn.
The Virginian
Friday, May. 19, 1961
He was Robert Jordan, dying at his submachine gun in Spain. He was Beau Geste staving off a charge, Sergeant York capturing 132 Germans, Lou Gehrig saying goodbye to the Yankees. And, so often and so well that there are urchins in Marrakech who know his name, he was the tall man?boyish and strong in The Virginian, wind-lined and stronger in High Noon?who walked arrow-straight down the street to meet the killers. Last week the tall man was dead.
During his 60 years, Gary Cooper learned to punch cows (at 13, on a ranch owned by his father, a Montana State Supreme Court justice), to draw (as an art student at Iowa's Grinnell College), to hunt, ski and skindive, and to fob off reporters with half-caricatured one-yup-manship. Some critics have said that he never bothered to learn to act. Actors who have worked with him say this: no one ever stole a scene from Coop.
The "It" Boy. He got his first film job in 1924 when, tired of trying to sell baby photographs in Los Angeles, he heard from Montana ranch buddies that you could get $10 just for falling off a horse. In those days they stretched ankle-high wires across fields to make sure that Indians and horses hit the proper patch of dust. Cooper survived, got a new first name (his own was Frank, but his pressagent was homesick for Gary, Ind.) and a feature part in Sam Goldwyn's The Winning of Barbara Worth. Paramount grabbed him from Goldwyn at $125 a week. Studio pressagents tagged him the "It" boy, and tried to promote a romance with Clara Bow. Coop cooperated: he shied at couches and dimity all his life, but only on-camera.
He became a star with his first facedown, in the picture that created the western. He also became the Virginian. In private, Coop could talk to royalty without fingering his white tie. Onscreen, he guarded his strength-of-ten, a quality that came to be called "bankability" in Hollywood's nervous '50s. For 36 years?a longer span than even Gable's?he was the gaunt good man who did what he had to do. He turned down the fattest male film part ever written?Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind?because he thought he "wasn't quite that dashing," and felt bad about playing the middle-aged rake in Love in the Afternoon. He was right: the Virginian would have thrashed a man who treated Audrey Hepburn that way.
Galahad Suit. Fortune favors her own; Washington did not drown in the Delaware, and Winston Churchill (as his legend has it) escaped from a Boer prison camp a few hours before he would have received a pardon. In 1951 the Virginian was a bashful, 50-year-old boy on whose career the gossipists were already dropping lilies. Then came the most famous walk-down of them all, High Noon, and here was Hollywood in top form: fashioning a Galahad suit of shining corn for an actor who did not have to act?who was.
Coop violated Hollywood tradition in only one way?he was married 27 years to the same woman. In 1959 he created something of a stir when he became a Roman Catholic. Not long ago, he talked to his old hunting pal Ernest Hemingway, who lay ill in Minnesota. Drawled the old cowboy: "I'll bet I reach the barn before you do." It was a line worthy of the Virginian, and only Coop himself could have topped it. A few weeks earlier, at a Friars Club dinner in his honor, he rose, carrying the secret of his cancer, and spoke: "If someone were to ask me, am I the luckiest man in the world, the answer would be?'Yup.' " Coop had made that speech before. Almost to the word, it was Lou Gehrig's farewell in The Pride of the Yankees.
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I watched Seven Days Leave last night and just like all his others, this one did not disappoint. I read a little background about it and it was based on a play by J.M. Barrie written in 1923 called The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. I was surprised to see too that it was Barrie who also wrote Peter Pan. I thought the story was great and very original. Most of you I think have seen it but for people who haven't the basic plot is Beryl Mercer's character, Sarah Dowey, is a scrub woman in London during WWI who has no family and feels left out of the war because her other friends all have sons fighting. So one day she reads about a soldier in the paper named Kenneth Dowey (Gary Cooper) and she decides to tell everyone he's her son. She even sends him letters and cakes posing as a young aristocratic lady who has taken a fancy to him. When Kenneth gets a few days leave he comes to London where Sarah's minister runs into him and learning his name decides to show him to his "mother's" house. At first he's confused at to what's going on but since he has no family either he and Sarah eventually form a mother-son bond.
Released in 1930 but filmed in early '29 this was his second released talkie but I'm wondering if it may have been filmed before The Virginian making it his actual first talkie - either way it's his first or second one. He seemed a little bit stiff at first but that didn't last too long and then the natural Gary took over. I love the scene at the beginning where Sarah and her friends are having tea in her house and they're all talking about the letters they receive from their sons and they each try to out do the others. Sarah asks them do their sons begin their letters with dear mother and they all reply yes and then she says Kenneth begins his letters dearest mother.
It was too cute too once he finally decided to stay with her (he put her on probation to see how she'd do as a mother) and she was showing him around her little house and she showed him the tub and it was tiny. He asked her how he was supposed to bathe in there and she said do one half at a time. It was hilarious too to see him sitting in that little tub with his knees up around his chin. I seriously don't know how he managed to get in there. And then when he went to bed she wanted to tuck him in but his feet stuck off the bed so she put a chair up under them-too sweet!! It was funny also to see him in a kilt but I'm telling you, the man would look good and totally at home in a potatoe sack
It was sweet to see how their relationship progressed from total strangers to mother and son. At first she keeps trying to call him Kenneth and he'd snap at her and she'd go back to calling him mister and then by the end she's calling him Kenny (which is also my dad's name just as a side note). He was so sweet to her too taking her to dinner at fancy restaurants and to the theater. But the best part is when he gets down on his knee and "proposes" to her telling her she passed probation and he wanted her to be his mom. This is definitely a tear jerker and very rewatchable.
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I had read that about him stone washing his jeans on his old official website and it cracked me up. That is pretty cool
Thanks for putting up the links too for the Home Theater Forum. I registered and when my info has been processed I'll post some there too. Between all of us posting movie reviews at amazon and different places we're a pretty good PR machine
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Pride of the Yankees is a great one to start with. I'm a huge baseball fan but even if you're not you will love the movie. I think it was Dan that said earlier that Coop made so many different kinds of movies and that is the truth. I think horror and musicals may be the only big genres he didn't work in so there's pretty much something for everybody in his body of work. What Mrs. Cooper said earlier is true too, once you watch a couple of his movies you will get hooked! I only really got into him back in December when he was star of the month and now I have almost all his movies and they are pretty much all great. There's no other actor (at least for me) who I like pretty much everything they did other than Gary. I've never liked Westerns before either but I love all of his.
I would definitely recommend Meet John Doe as well, that's the one that got me hooked. I had seen Pride of the Yankees and loved it and then real late one night I caught part of Ball of Fire and thought it looked like a good one. Then I saw in December that he was SOTM and Ball of Fire was coming on again so I thought I'd watch it. Well Meet John Doe was coming on first and I didn't know anything about it but I figured I'd watch it too. This movie pulled me in immediately and after his first scene I just absolutely fell in love with him
He was a special man and a great actor and like one of the characters said in Hamlet, "I shall never look upon his like again".
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I definitely agree that she was much prettier than Rocky and they did make a real cute couple. They did really seem to love each other too but I bet that would have been one tempestous marriage and it probably would've ended unhappily or even tragically.
I'm gonna watch Seven Days Leave tonight and I've heard such good things about it so I'm excited
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I don't know if you've seen these but there good pics of Gary and Lupe.
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I've read that too that she wouldn't let some of his friends come in the house. Overall she sounds like a good person but definitely a competitive one and she ruled the roost at their house. Like you pointed out judging by the women in his life (mom included) I think maybe he liked being told what to do and being taken care of. Maria said it was her mom who was always planning activities for them to do and new things to learn like scuba diving and stuff like that and that Gary enjoyed letting her do it.
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Thanks, we did have a good visit. It seems weird b/c my grandma is only 4 years older than Maria yet Maria seems so much younger. I think it's probably b/c most of the pics I've seen of her are when she was younger. I guess too watching so many of Gary's movies it doesn't seem like he's gone b/c he's right there on my tv even the movie maybe 70 or 80 years old. When my grandma was a kid she used to go to the movies a lot and she loved it. Man it would've been great to see these movies when they were new up on the big screen. But then I would not have wanted to go through the depression and WWII (her older brothers both fought in it and lived through it).
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That's a good question. He was so good at all the different roles he played and I've liked all his movies I've seen so far (except the Fountainhead) but at least for today I might have to lean more toward the cowboy parts. He was such a good rider and was just so smooth with a horse that it's just a joy to watch. The Cowboy and the Lady is a really good ones and high on my list of faves. The Westerner is also good for a cowboy Gary movie.
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I found some more info about the Meet John Doe musical that just had it's premiere last friday. Here's the official website address.
http://www.johndoemusical.com/
Here's a pic of the two leads.
We've had this discussion before but I just can't picture this guy as Long John. I don't mean to sound shallow but the whole point of the character is that he's like an average guy who is very likeable and is just able to pull people in so that they'll listen to him. Now he doesn't need to be as gorgeous as Gary but he at least needs to be decent looking.
Anyway there's a lot of interesting info about the musical on the website like how at first they decided to set it in modern times but then went back to the original time period and how they ramped up the love story angle and made Ann more of the main character than John.
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I watched Love in the Afternoon last night and it was so great!!!! But of course it's Gary and Audrey so how can you go wrong?! I loved his character in this one and he was so romantic. The gypsy band that follows him around was hilarious. It was nice to see him play a ladies man too instead of the aw, shucks I don't know what to do with women type (even though I love that too). This is definitely one I'll watch again and again. It's a cliche but it's so true--they just don't make 'em like that anymore
I'm going out of town this weekend to visit my grandma and it's beautiful weather so it should be a nice trip. Y'all have a nice weekend too.
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1. What classic actor had the nicest smile? Gene Kelly
2. What classic actors would you cast as the 3 stooges? don't know
3. What classic actor would you love to see wearing a kilt and blowing a bagpipe for St. Patrick's Day? Sean Connery in his early Bond days
4. What classic actor would you love to share the world's longest kiss with? Gary Cooper
5. What classic actor would you love to pour a bottle of beer on? John Wayne (not a fan)
6. What classic actor would you like to have as your fitness instructor? Gene Kelly - he'd work you hard but you'd end up able to bounce quarters off your behind
7. What classic actor do you think had the worst temper in real life? I'll go with Bing too
8. What classic actor do you evision to be the most well-endowed? Gary Cooper (according to Clara Bow and the fact that he had women chasing him his whole life)
9. What classic actor would you like to "sleep double in a single bed" with? Again gotta go with Coop
10. What classic actor(s) do you remember exactly when and what you were doing when you heard they passed away? Lucille Ball - I was around 12 and I remember hearing it on the news. She was one of my faves
11. What classic actor reminds you most of your husband and father? He's not a classic but my dad looks a lot like Robin Williams
12. What classic actor would you like to draw a still-life of? Coop - I can't draw and since he was tall and lanky I could just do a stick figure (don't let the lankiness fool you though, he was cut)
13. What classic actor is like "chalk on a blackboard" to you? Jerry Lewis
14. What classic actor would you like to have met most? Coop (I think there's a pattern here). He's just mesmerizing on screen and not just b/c of his looks but there's just something about him that's innately good and you just want to be around people like that.
15. What classic actor do you dislike most and list your reason why. I like Jerry Lewis as a person but I don't like him as an actor. His voice gets on my nerves and I just don't find him funny. He does a lot of great work though his charities.
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I don't know where you got all those but they are fantastic!!!!!! I especially like the ones from Souls at Sea and Morocco
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We made quite a discovery yesterday in our garage. My stepdad's great aunt was a huge movie fan and in 1927 she started a scrapbook of newspapers and magazine photos and articles about all the stars of the day. It was in a beautiful old trunk that we got when she died over a decade ago and we emptied the trunk and put everything in a storage box without looking through it. Since we've been watching so many old movies lately my stepdad remembered the scrapbook and we found it. It's in amazing condition to be so old and has pics and articles from the late 20's through the 30's. Most of it is permanently attached to the paper which would make it difficult to scan but there just happened to be one beautiful picture of Gary from 1931 loose.
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Nothing wrong with a little eye candy
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I love the cover for Ball of Fire and I always pictured that dress as being that color--WEIRD!!!!!
Love the pics from Seven Days Leave too. I have that one coming and can't wait to see it.
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That clip is from Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House. It's a really funny movie and it's available to buy so you could easily pick it up somewhere if you want to see it. My dad is a big Cary Grant fan and he told me about that one. The Money Pit with Tom Hanks and Shelley Long from the 80's is a loose remake of that one and it's one of my faves. In both movies a family has decided to move to the country in a bigger house and they are in terrible shape and they end up in all kinds of trouble. They're both worth a look.
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Amazon and DVD Empire have some cover art up for the single release dvd's so hopefully that's another good sign.
Least Liked Hollywood Film Stars
in General Discussions
Posted
> I cannot stand Tom Cruise, Yes he was cute in Risky
> Business and Top Gun. I barley stayed awake
> watching Last Sumeri( sorry about the spelling.) He
> can hardly act yet thinks he is all that and a bag
> of chips.
> The rest of the list is Nicholas Cage, Nicole
> Kidman,Merril Street,Joan Crawford,
> Gary Cooper,Elizabeth Taylor and John Wayne. All
> of the about have inflated egos, conceted,inpossible
> to work with, Oh I forgot Julia Roberts. I will
> pass on any movies that the about are in. Perfer
> real people.
I know this is an old post but I see you have Gary Cooper listed in with stars you don't like and who have big egos and are hard to work with. I'm a HUGE Coop fan and I don't have a problem with you not being a fan but I just gotta say that he was not that way at all. I've read a lot about him and we talk about him pretty much daily in the Gary Cooper fans thread and by all accounts he was great to work with and not one of those people who acted like a lot of spoiled celebrities. I've read several stories where he and other actors were being mistreated on the set and he often stuck up for them and himself and so many people he worked with have nothing but glowing things to say about him.
In particular Joan Leslie, who co-starred with him in Sgt. York has a wonderful story about how they first met. She was only 16 and hadn't done much acting yet and when she saw him she was in awe as he had been a big star for many years by then and she didn't know what to say to him. She thought calling him Gary or Coop was too informal since she didn't know him and calling him Mr. Cooper seemed to formal. She said he could tell she was nervous and he immediately made her feel at ease by calling her by her characters name, Gracie, and telling her he was pleased to meet her. She also called him Alvin, his characters name and she felt better after that.
This may be a little rambly but I'd just hate for people to get the wrong impression of him.