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Gary Cooper Publicity Photo C.1929 #2 Collage Color Added Framed Print
by David Lee Guss
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Gary Cooper Publicity Photo C.1929 #2 Collage Color Added framed print by David Lee Guss. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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Gary Cooper (1901-1961) looks even prettier than his female co-stars at the dawn (1929) of the talkie era. ... more
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Gary Cooper (1901-1961) looks even prettier than his female co-stars at the dawn (1929) of the talkie era.
But his face aged badly with time even looking older than his years. He was 27 years older than Grace Kelly in "High Noon" and 28 with Audrey Hepburn in "Love in the Afternoon." And he looked it.
Many of the top stars of silent pictures failed in the talkies. The new stars, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Jimmy Cagney, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Walter Huston and Spencer Tracy, among many lesser lights all came from the stage.
Not so with "Coop." The camera loved the Montana cowboy turned actor.
The Shakespearean trained Charlton Heston (1923-2008) writes about Coop in his 1995 autobiography "In the Arena." They appeared together in Cooper's second to last movie "The Wreck of the Mary Deare." (1959)
Heston recounts looking at Cooper instead of himself in the nighttime screenings of the footage. Heston feels Coop was underrated as an a...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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