Gary Cooper publicity photo c.1929
by David Lee Guss
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Gary Cooper publicity photo c.1929
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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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.
"Gary Cooper was the first actor to believe you didn't have to mug to act, if you thought of what you were doing, it showed -- and he proved he was right." -Henry Hathaway
Hathaway directed Cooper in "Now and Forever" (1934), "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" (1935), "Peter Ibbetson" (1935), "Souls at Sea," (1937), "The Real Glory," (1939) and "Garden of Evil" (1954).
"Dad was a true Westerner, and I take after him." - Frank James Cooper aka Gary Cooper
{Note: Frank legally changed his name to Gary in 1925. Like Duke he died of cancer.}
@2009 David Lee Guss - Film homage, Gary Cooper 2, 1929-2009
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