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And these French photos are awersome! Thanks for posting them. What is this site URL?

Great images! Thanks. But may be you forget or they didn't show on my computer - on e-bay now is 3 great images taken while shooting Love in the Afternoon (or may be they are already bought, they have possibility buy it now?).

I don't think he is a biggest crrok. After all he is giving his land not to his daughter but for the state. Of course he was hard man sometimes and had some tough ways, but all this lays outside the movie which is very funny comedy at the first place. I always loved it and when it appered in restored edition even more.

Of course I know about horses a little - I have a horse myself, it is a mare named Bible. Henry Fonda painted such good pictures - wow! I think Dollor became main Duke horse after True Grit, but I remember somebody told me that Dollor appered at True Grit too - rather young he was then. There is a special thread about Duke horses at Message Board at dukewayne.com

It seems everybody here know Russian! What can I say!

Coop rode this horse in Nevada, Only the Brave. Speaking for myself I don't like horses with so big white spots and blue eyes. It isn't natural. It's my opinion, I never choose such horse for myself. But some people like it. There is breed in Russia, oriental one named Achal-Teke, there sometimes born in it horses with light colored scen between yellow and pink and with blue eyes. My friends, who bred this horses have this year two such foals. But in ancient times such foals was destroyed, because they thought they are not proper.

This Appolosa horse from ElDorado was picked up by Hawks and had very bad temper. Duke didn't like it and rode it only in this one movie. In his later years he rode horse named Dollor, you can recognise this red one in his later movies. From his horses my favorite is Banner - you can see it in Angel and Badman, Gio Grande etc.

Thank you for information Miss Goddess, it is very dissapointing about Hawks, but any director I guess had his weaker movies. Anyway I'm planning to watch all Gary's movies which I can find, so I hope to see it someday. Hawks is not my top favorite director, but I love his Segreant York greatly. It is my favorite Hawks movie. Ball of Fire of course and 3 from four movies he made with Duke is also great! Yesterday I watched Bringing Up Baby - it is very funny.

Wow, Hi Frank Grimes, How do you know Russian so well - that puzzels me. My English is not so well unfortunatly, but thank you for your kind words. By the way the while ago it was said that sombody is going to put here a review on Return to Paradise. I'm really mighty interested in reading it, because this movie is not amoung my favorites. May be I'm mistaken about it.

Angie, I agree with you completly, and you mention my 2 favorite scenes too. I also may be putting Meet John Doe even over Deeds, but I saw it first and I was surprised by my reaction to the John Doe himself. You see he is true avarege guy at the beginning, not very bright and intelligent. And I (I'm afraid to said that really) never in my life like avarege guyes. And this John Doe came as a great pain in my heart, because I like him so much, even at the point when he couldn't made his mind. As it was in your favorite scene with the speech.

Today we live is Hawks movie? I haven't seen it yet and your opinions are not very encoureging. I don't like Joan Crawford.

I agree that Deeds is perfect, but I think, John Doe too, even if it is not considered as one by most critics. By the way, great photo, thanks. When I first saw tham both I like Doe more, now I'm really don't know. Meet John Doe after all is rather sad movie. Or may be I'm wrong?

The video is great! you sure have a talent. In zone 2 they release widescreen version and I love it. Shall watch it tonight again. Unfortunatly I was awfully busy at the end of December and January will be no better, but I'm going to Paris and I saw at french Amazon that they released some of Gary's movies - Desire and Blubeard Eight's wife. So I'm hoping to get some new DVDs. I have a multizone player, besides all 2 zone videos go well at 5 zone Russian players.

Oh-oh, Angie, what a photo from the Fountainhead!

I certainly must watch movies twice, because it happened to me many times when I didn't really recognise the true value of the movie when I see it for the first time. This happened with me with Man of the West. When I saw it for the first time I have mixed impression because of it's violence, but it began grow in me very fast, the impression just lasted and lasted, I watched it over and over and like more and more. Sometimes I became hooked with Coop movie when I first see it, became crazy about it, trying to catch any of my relatives or friends to show the movie I like so greatly. It happened with Love in the Afternoon, The Fountainhead, Sergeant York, Dallas and many others. But when you became incane about something so suddenly - you watch it almost everyday and bored everybody to death with it, it lasted one or two mounth and when you moving to the other great one which you just descovered. As for the top five movies in public opinion I begin to think about my country - which movies was released, shown on tv and became known. 1. High Noon on the first place. It was only movie which I first saw on tv and I think the only one which was shown on tv here, but on this point I'm not sure. It was shown in colorized version. I wasn't Gary Cooper fan when I saw it, but impression was so big that I asked my brother to buy me Collector's Edition of High Noon which I just saw in Helsinki. So I became an owner of it and always like to watch it when I was in some kind of a fix. 2. For Whom the Bell Tolls and Farewell to Arms, because Hemingway is highly regarded here and very well known and popular. 3. Love in the Afternoon, because of very wide love to Audry Hepbern. 4. Sergeant York was released by two differnt companies 5 The Fountainhead because of Ayn Rand, but it was released only recently. Also was Vera Cruz on VHS and Peter Ibbetson - the last because he was written (the novel by Daphna Du Morier father)

I must give It Happened one Night another try. I just love It's a Wonderful Life. I'm really didn't recognise Moreno. Thank you for this information. Regards, Senta

The wallpaper with Dohn Doy is great. I don't know why but I saw the picture only now. I like Dallas too. It was one of these movies you became obsessed with and it was very strange for me that it is regarded very low by film critics. Antonio Moreno? Who is he playing? I didn't think it was the same actor, how interesting indeed. Capra is not my favorite director but amoung them. My attraction to his movies became not with Gary movies (haven't seen them yet) but with You can't take it with you and It's a Wonderful life. It was religios aspect of these movies which hooked me. But not all his movies have impression on me. By the way It happened one Night left me cold, I even didn't finish it. I watched a half of it, when I must quit for sometime, and for about a mounth I can't find time to see the second half. Strange, isn't it?

Nice video and I like this Marty Robbins song

Oh, it seems to be quite an article. Thank you for sharing it here. I also received a magazine Screen Greats this week - the whole devoted to Gary Cooper. I guess you all here have it already. I like reading it a lot. I also received a book about sergeant York which i so badly wanted today - haven't read it yet, but expect much from it. Sergant York is one of my favorite movies. The book has Coop as York on the cover, it was printed during the war. I also always was wondering why he was always seen as an avarege guy? Eastwood in his documentary said that suddenly he became the person he never expected to be - a great romantic figure. He said it in such way that it seems kind of surprise to him. May be only John Doy is avarege between his heroes, but Mr.Deeds is certainly far from avarege.

Destry Rides again It's a Wonderful life Shenandoa The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Winchester,73 You Can't Take it with You Bend of the River I haven't seen Mr.Smith

Great picture with Errol Flynn and Lily Damita! Thanks!

It's great! Thanks! I enjoyed it a lot.

Hi Miss Goddess, I understand you points, but I hardly find them cinycal from their first conversation. Never thought about it that way. And going to the desert after true love throwing away all that society can give it's simbol I guess, not a real going to the desert barefoot. I always feel about that movie that it strongly connected not with 30-es but with the beginning of the XX with all its art research and feeling about life in misterios way and all that art deco. And against traditional values - broken rules. By the way many autors think that the anger against Sternberg bring from Coop that kind of unusial performance. There is interesting things about filming Morocco in Marleine Dietrich doughters book (Maria Riva - that's her name). Marleine told that it was Lupe Velez who was sitting on Coopers knees between the takes and doing things which people always do private. Lupe also told Marleine to stay away from her Gary.

Sorry, I think I misunderstand some previos post. But the more celebrations - the merrier. We shall return to it in January.

I can understand that. It seems I missed your birthday (my both computers went down, so I have an excuse). May I also add my congratulations to you. May all your wishes (almost all!) come true.