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Gary Cooper was born Frank James Cooper, on May 7, 1901, in Helena, Montana. Mr. Cooper was a famous motion picture star. A newspaper published in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1947, reported a speech supposedly made by the star in which he said to have praised the American Communist Party. The Daily Worker, an East Coast Communist newspaper published an article which stated: "Press Agent Hoax in Brazil Makes hero of Wrong Actor". The article said that this was a cheap trick to get the people to see his films - to take their money under false pretenses. The November 1951 issue of the bulletin "Counterattack" contained an article that stated for years Gary Cooper was prominent in the motion picture alliance for the preservation of American ideals which had led the fight against Communist infiltration in Hollywood. Mr. Cooper's house was burglarized on several occasions and incurred a loss of several thousand dollars each time.
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One of the lesser-known satisfactions in Gary Cooper's career is this 1935 King Vidor film, an offbeat blend of romance, comedy, and tragedy. It begins in screwball territory: Cooper plays a novelist whose partying ways have stalled his career and made his new manuscript unpublishable. He and wife Helen Vinson like the high life (any resemblance to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald is probably intentional), and she doesn't stick around while he tries to write a new book in a quiet Connecticut country house. The isolation puts him into proximity with a heartfelt young immigrant girl (Anna Sten), whose Polish community provides a subject for his new book.
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For his contribution to the film industry, Gary Cooper has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6243 Hollywood Blvd. In 1966, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His name has ... been immortalized in Irving Berlin's song "Puttin' on the Ritz" with the line, "Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper, (super duper)".
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Based on a classic Western by Zane Grey, this early starring role for Gary Cooper has Coop as a wagon scout charged with delivering his people to California. Complications include a band of renegade Indians and a romance with a French girl. 80 min.Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: Spanish.
Gary Cooper started as an extra in westerns in the 1920s and went on to become one of Hollywood's greatest stars, known for his Oscar-winning roles in Sergeant York (1941) and High Noon (1952). Cooper spent his childhood in Montana and England (his parents were British) and went to college in Iowa. In 1924 he ended up in Los Angeles, looking for work as a newspaper cartoonist. When that didn't pan out he found work as a Hollywood extra and bit player; he had his first substantial role in The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926). Tall and handsome, Cooper had a shy smile and slow speech which made him a the very definition of the stoic hero of the American west, but he was equally successful at romantic comedy, especially in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Meet John Doe (1941, with Barbara Stanwyck). His other films include A Farewell to Arms (1932), The Pride of the Yankees (1942, as Lou Gehrig) and Along Came Jones (1946).
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Four Academy Awards, including Gary Cooper's second Best Actor Oscar, went to director Fred Zinnemann's landmark Western drama. Cooper shines as retiring frontier marshal Will Kane, who must stand alone when a vengeance-seeking outlaw comes to town. Grace Kelly co-stars as Kane's new Quaker wife; with Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Ian MacDonald, Thomas Mitchell. 85 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; "making of" documentary; photo gallery; audio commentary; documentary; theatrical trailers; radio broadcast with Tex Ritter.
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