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So Gary Cooper, who set the standard of selfless nobility in High Noon, plays cross and double cross with "buddy" Burt Lancaster to win a pot of gold in beautiful, treacherous Mexico. The Captive Heart (Basil Dearden, 1946) 1. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
5Top: Darkhorse best picture Oscar contenders Nov 27, 2007
Westerns, huge in the Gary Cooper and John Wayne days, may have gone out of fashion decades ago but when theyre good, theyre great. And thats the best way to describe 3:10 to Yuma, a brilliant remake with three standout performances by Christian Bale, Russell Crowe and Ben Foster, as Crowes maniacal rock star sidekick. (MSNBC -- News)
Bad-rap artists Nov 3, 2007
The strategy can work: In the real world, Gary Cooper and John Wayne don't always win. Here are some other teams that actively adopted a bad-guy rap, either through dominance or arrogance or intimidation, and won. (Albany Times Union)
One Million Dollar Auction of Original Glamour Photographs of Hollywood's Sexy Stars of the 1920s & 1930s Oct 25, 2007
On November 7 and 8, Profiles in History, the world's leading dealer of authentic Hollywood artifacts presents over 1,000 fine art photographs featuring history's most legendary actresses including Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, Louise Brooks, Norma Shearer and Thelma Todd and actors including Clark Gable, Lon Chaney, Sr., Gary Cooper, John Barrymore and William Powell, to name a few. These classic photographs -- the greatest... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Obituary: Deborah Kerr Oct 19, 2007
At best The Naked Edge (1961) was a routine thriller, made painful by Gary Cooper, already ill with cancer, in his last role and the last year of his life. The highlight of this British period came the same year when she again played a governess - this time in Jack Clayton's version of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Thinking out loud Oct 10, 2007
He seemed to remind me of Gary Cooper playing that sheriff in High Noon. I swear he was teasing me and telling me to catch him if I could. (West Roxbury Transcript, MA)
Dolphin's namesake dies at 99 Oct 5, 2007
"She used to tell us all kinds of stories. She knew Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Norman Baskin. He ran the restaurant that was there. Marineland was like Disney World is these days. All the movie stars came. She met Gary Cooper when he was making 'Distant Drums.' She met so many famous people," Thompson said. Nellie Neighbors was pleased to have the dolphin named after her. (The St. Augustine Record)
Hard-boiled on screen, but charming in person Oct 5, 2007
You've been called the Asian Clark Gable , but I think you're more like Gary Cooper soft face, dark heart. You mean Tony Leung me or Tony Leung on screen. (Globe and Mail)
From: 1toughdude@badhombre.com Sep 25, 2007
Is this guy Gary Cooper. Give me a break. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
The Wild West's Long and Winding Road Sep 22, 2007
In Anthony Mann's Westerns with Stewart and Gary Cooper, a good man with a bad past would face his own demons. The final shootout was both a surge and a purge. (Time.com)
Anniversary gala a big hit Sep 20, 2007
She also revealed that her favorite leading man was Gary Cooper, and that she preferred stage acting to movies or television. During her two-day stay Neal was a guest at the Downtown Inn, and shopped at several of the businesses on the square. (The Piggott Times, AR)
RAILTOWN STILL CHUGGING ALONG AT 25 Sep 19, 2007
1929 "The Virginian," starring Gary Cooper, is first sound film shot on location at Jamestown. 1937 Sierra Railway becomes the Sierra Railroad, under the ownership of Crocker Associates. (The Union Democrat)
One-time screen idol Farley Granger tells of bisexual past in new memoir Sep 18, 2007
He writes about what may have been the quintessential Hollywood party: Gary Cooper called to invite Granger to a party for Clark Gable. Granger quickly accepted. (North County Times)
Anniversary Gala is Saturday Sep 15, 2007
This included such titles as The Fountainhead with Gary Cooper and 1951 s The Day the Earth Stood Still. Following a well-publicized romance with Cooper, that reportedly began on the set of The Fountainhead , Neal eventually married writer Roald Dahl. (The Piggott Times, AR)
'Walk the Line' director revives Western genre with remake Sep 9, 2007
Mangold not only pays tribute to the original, but improves on it with even more impressive sweeping cinematography, a host of standout performances and tension that has not been generated in a western since Gary Cooper walked the dusty streets alone in "High Noon.". "3:10 to Yuma" is the story of Civil War veteran Dan Evans (Christian Bale in the role played by Van Heflin in the original). (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Russell Crowe rides again in "3:10 to Yuma" Sep 8, 2007
BEIJING, Sept. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Gary Cooper ("High Noon" 1952) is long-gone, John Wayne saddled up for the last time, shot to death Richard "Have Gun Will Travel" Boone and rode off into the sunset years ago in "The Shootist" (1976), then Clint Eastwood savagely blew away Gene Hackman in "Unforgiven" (1992) leading many to believe the U.S. Wild West movie was a groaner and a goner. So leave it to a New Zealand-born actor and an American director who "always wanted to make a western" to resurrect... (Xinhuanet, China)
In Hollywood, venerable Western rides again Sep 7, 2007
From noble to bloodyFrom the 1930s through the 60s, legendary actors such as John Wayne, (The Searchers, Stagecoach), James Stewart (Destry Rides Again, Shenandoah), Gary Cooper (High Noon, The Westerner) and Henry Fonda (My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache) made Westerns one of their specialties. Studios churned Westerns out by the dozen, with major directors led by John Ford continually returning to the genre. (MSNBC -- News)
3:10 to Yuma stays on the tracks Sep 5, 2007
(If anything, this new version feels like a recasting with other stars of the era Crowe does the charming-bastard sparkle of Burt Lancaster opposite Bales soft-spoken Gary Cooper. . (MSNBC -- Movies)
Rounding Up The Baddest Bad Men Of The West, In Rewind Sep 5, 2007
But all the newly retired Marshal Will Kane (an iconic Gary Cooper) wants is to live a peaceful life with his new Quaker bride (Grace Kelly). Since nobody else in town has the guts to stand up to the sociopathic killer, it's up to Will (and a few good women) to save the town. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Pass the pillow Sep 1, 2007 Venice readies plate of spaghetti Aug 29, 2007 • Winds Whip Wildfire Near Sun Valley Aug 29, 2007 Television movies for the week of August 26 Aug 26, 2007 Review: Circling My Mother Aug 25, 2007 What drives Mr Freeman Aug 19, 2007 On 30th anniversary of Elvis' death, nun recalls their films Aug 16, 2007 The inarticulate society Aug 15, 2007 On eve of 15-year sentence, Adelphia's Rigas opens up Aug 6, 2007 Broken Trail Jul 20, 2007 CHARLES LANE: 1905-2007Actor made major impact in minor roles Jul 12, 2007 Patriotic movies recommended for day of fireworks, flags and family Jul 4, 2007 John McClane the quintessential American hero Jun 26, 2007 Yippee-ki-yay! Best, worst Bruce Willis movies Jun 26, 2007 Antonio Aguilar, 88; Mexican singer and actor had a huge following north of the border Jun 21, 2007 Sterling Vineyards(R) Announces Movies for 5th Annual Sterling Silver Screen Series to Benefit Local Charities Jun 21, 2007 Possible Hotel Fresno buyer backs out Jun 12, 2007 Don't stop believing Jun 11, 2007 For its deliberate plot, Sopranos characters always adrift Jun 8, 2007 Hemingway on big screen Jun 7, 2007 That's Mister homicidal maniac to you, pal Jun 2, 2007 'Mr. Brooks' makes you bet on the bad guy Jun 1, 2007 New on DVD: O'Toole provides pulse for 'Venus' Jun 1, 2007 Santa Maria Inn steeped in Central Coast history May 28, 2007 Wayne's True Grit May 26, 2007 Wayne only a cardboard hero May 24, 2007 Armchair Cinephile May 23, 2007 Bardot on Cannes, celebrity, career May 22, 2007 Library to host movie screening May 11, 2007 Summer movie preview Apr 29, 2007 Playing it safe, Academy Awards style Apr 29, 2007 Hotel Fresno owners win one Apr 27, 2007 HISTORIC HOME HOLDS PRECIOUS MEMORIES Apr 27, 2007 Granger tells of bisexual past Apr 13, 2007 Bravura Bava collection will set teeth ... Apr 12, 2007 DFS bends laws of time and space with new film series Apr 4, 2007 Baseball flicks from Pride to Durham Apr 4, 2007 Best on-screen battles: Your views Apr 4, 2007 Rolling through history -- From bears to celebrities, Valley Center's lure revealed in planned bus tour Apr 1, 2007 Meeting 'John Doe' kind of a letdown Mar 27, 2007 Straight 'Shooter' Mar 23, 2007 Made in Maryland Mar 23, 2007 AFI presents Zinnemann Mar 22, 2007 Sad movies hurt so good Mar 15, 2007 Walter Reed scandal shouldnt be a surprise Mar 9, 2007 Astronaut Farmer Feb 25, 2007 From 'Bad Santa' to good 'Astronaut' Feb 25, 2007 Bring on the Boamies Feb 23, 2007 Billy Bob Thornton Interview, The Astronaut Farmer Feb 22, 2007 Placer County Playgrounds Feb 4, 2007 'Because I Said So': Psychotic Flypaper Feb 3, 2007 The Last Cowboy Feb 3, 2007 Still sexy after all these years Feb 3, 2007 OUT AND ABOUT, FEBRUARY 3-4 Feb 3, 2007 - Intellectuals reveal their guilty pleasures Feb 3, 2007 Jolie to film the cult 'bible of selfishness' Jan 28, 2007 LOOKING BACK: ACCIDENTAL CAREER Jan 28, 2007 Replaying Brando: Jan 27, 2007 Queens-born Art Buchwald dies Jan 26, 2007 Crime Scenes Jan 22, 2007 SIRIUS Satellite Radio to Launch 'Barbara Walters' Best of the Very Best' Jan 21, 2007 Biographical dramas spin film gold Jan 20, 2007 Gebhart: Chester native Holland once was engaged to De Carlo Jan 16, 2007 What I'm watching Jan 13, 2007
Farewell boasts Frank Borzage, Helen Hayes and an ethereally youthful Gary Cooper; the trouble is it's got zero Hemingway in it. Likewise A Lost Lady, which managed to bowdlerise a novel that wasn't even dirty. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Which celebrities were born in Montana? Aug 31, 2007
The Montana Standard. The Montana Standard. (Montana Standard, MT)
"Do you want this expression like John Wayne or like Henry Fonda?" Nero once asked Corbucci, who replied, "I want this one like Gary Cooper and the next one like Burt Lancaster, but your walk has to be like Henry Fonda.". It's that odd, wild, mix-and-match spirit of Italian Westerns that anticipates the movies of later directors, like John Woo and Tarantino himself, and which continues to make spaghettis a treasure-trove of discoveries for hardcore film buffs. (Variety)
The fire has burned more than 64 square miles of spruce, fir and pine trees, keeping crews busy near a summit lodge adorned with fading pictures of Ernest Hemingway, Gary Cooper and Tyrone Power, past visitors to the ski area founded in 1936. Amid the smoke, managers opted to run ski lifts - not for people, but to keep errant flames from cooking cables that ferry more than 200,000 visitors up the slopes each winter. (Q13.com, WA)
TV Movies: August 26-September 1. G = General audiences PG = Parental Guidance PG-13 = Not recommended for preteens R = Restricted audience. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Darcey Steinke is the author, most recently, of "Easter Everywhere," a memoir. " Admirably, Gordon lets her mother exist in paradox - a glamorous career woman in red lipstick and business suits and also a bitter alcoholic with a body afflicted by polio. She is also a sister, a member of a large Irish-Italian family. The "Gagliano girls" are mythic: five sisters, most of them snakebite mean. Lilian is the only good aunt; known as a "featherhead," a beautician who dyes her hair and uses chrome... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
But when I look on actors like Henry Fonda, Spencer Tracy or Gary Cooper, they were also considered such. Then I start thinking: Well, Morgan, you are in very good company. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
"I walked into a room to meet him, and he jumped to his feet. He was very capable of manners and he knew what to do, and very few people in that town do. He came over and took my hand and greeted me," she said, adding that only Elvis and Gary Cooper called her "Miss Dolores" during her time in Hollywood. "If there was any justice, Elvis would be alive and every Elvis impersonator would be dead. But that's not very kind," she said. (New Haven Register, CT)
Hasn't the model American hero long been the strong, silent type - that is, the inarticulate type - at least since Gary Cooper ... Hasn't the model American hero long been the strong, silent type - that is, the inarticulate type - at least since Gary Cooper. (Townhall.com)
Rigas says this mass exodus of supporters was like the final scene in the classic Western High Noon, when Gary Cooper faces a gang of gunslingers in the town square alone. "I felt like I was Gary Cooper," Rigas says, a rare smile creasing his face. (USA Today -- Money)
Also, the male leads are such Marlboro Men their dialogue makes Gary Cooper sound like a relative chatterbox. Even so, there are lovely moments in the later going and genuine pathos in the fate of the girls, whose frightening lot as strangers in a strange and abusive land becomes the most deftly captured element in Alan Geoffrion's screenplay. (Variety)
" He is in one scene, as a society reporter, but the scene is significant. For the whole beginning of the film, a mystery is made as to the true background of Dick Powell, who plays a songwriter. Now at a Broadway opening, Lane spots him, thinks he recognizes him and tells his friends during intermission. That's Lane's whole role, a small one -- but he nails it. We know, from just a few lines from Lane, that this reporter is smart and tenacious, and that he's not going to quit until he finds out... (San Francisco Chronicle)
The 1941 production was based on the diary of Alvin York, the most decorated soldier in World War I. "This moving story tells about a willful man, played by Oscar winner Gary Cooper, who comes to Jesus Christ and comes to terms with war," Baehr's evaluation said. After his conversion, the movie's lead character is "deeply troubled" about fighting in the war because he cannot reconcile the Bible's teaching against killing with participating in a war to defend his country. (WorldNetDaily)
No. 5 is Marshal Will Kane (Gary Cooper) in High Noon. Most of our cinematic heroes are lone gunmen, and Kane is the epitome. (MSNBC -- News)
His performance is less John Wayne (in True Grit) and more Gary Cooper (in High Noon). The Player (1992). (MSNBC -- News)
By 1945, he moved to Mexico City with a Lincoln convertible and cash in the bank, soon buying a nightclub, the Minuit, that came to attract cross-border celebrities including Gary Cooper and Pedro Infante. Though he first started singing romantic boleros, Aguilar changed his tuxedo for a charro outfit and found popular acceptance singing rancheras and corridos, the narrative genre that spins tales of adventurers and revolutionaries, such as Heraclio Bernal and Emiliano Zapata, whom he later... (Los Angeles Times)
LaSalle will help kick off the popular outdoor screenings on July 14 with a personal introduction to the film Design for Living; a 1933 comedy/romance in which Miriam Hopkins finds herself in love with both Gary Cooper and Fredric March. Sterling Silver Screenings will continue with The Sting on August 4, The Palm Beach Story on August 25 and conclude with Rear Window on September 8. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Over the years, its rooms housed actor Gary Cooper, boxers Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis and a young politician, Richard Nixon. The reporter can be reached at or (559) 441-6495. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
Another "Whatever happened to Gary Cooper?" moment: the tour bus drives through Little Italy while the guide explains how the thriving neighborhood is now essentially a single block of shops and cafes -- so tiny that, when Butchie gets too wrapped up in a phone call to Phil, he wanders out of Little Italy altogether. Who knew Agent Harris had such a dark side. (Newark Star Ledger)
He repeatedly name-checked Gary Cooper, marveling at "the strong, silent type" that Cooper embodied on screen: A fake guy admiring the fake side of a real guy. If fake Cooper is Tony's ideal, he only achieves that fake state in his misguided head. (Houston Chronicle)
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "To Have and Have Not" were enormously popular co-starring vehicles in successive years during World War II. Gary Cooper, a Hemingway crony who had co-starred in the first "A Farewell to Arms" with Helen Hayes, was matched with relative newcomer Ingrid Bergman in 1943. Humphrey Bogart and genuine neophyte Lauren Bacall commenced an authentic romance while shooting "To Have" a year later. (Washington Times, DC)
The actor, who has patterned himself after the strong-silent types of mid-century, breaks new ground in this one, going where Gary Cooper never went before. He takes on a modern urban thriller -- and as the bad guy, no less. (San Francisco Chronicle)
It's sort of like watching a cold-blooded version of Gary Cooper or Jimmy Stewart stalking and killing people. With his performance here, Costner once again proves that if he's given the right material -- see the outstanding "13 Days," "Open Range" or "The Upside of Anger" for more examples -- he's one of the best actors working in Hollywood. (Indianapolis Star)
But here's Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard (a bit ripe for their roles) at 1763 Fort Pitt, a compelling time and setting not often showcased in the cinema. A tad lumpy at 2 hours, 26 minutes, this Technicolor guilty pleasure opens with Cooper's purchase of a pretty indentured slave for noble purposes. (USA Today -- Life)
Anne Baxter, Jack Benny, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Doris Day, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Alan Ladd, David Niven, Kim Novak, Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne added their names to the growing list of nearly 100 famous guests. Today, doors in the old portion of the hotel are adorned with stars and the names of the celebrities believed to have stayed inside those very rooms. (Santa Maria Times)
" And then think how, across that span, Wayne remained one of the top 10 people that other people wanted to see. That's longevity of epic proportions. The reasons for this longevity have to do with Wayne himself, with an artistry that had little to do with dramatic range but with other qualities that deserve to be looked at in detail; and with his movies, of course, some of which were excellent, though most were just OK. But they also have to do with the times, and what Wayne represented in... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Take Gary Cooper, for example. He was as big as John Wayne, but actually handsome. (DeWitt Era-Enterprise, AR)
Ball of Fire (MGM): MGM has eight new Gary Cooper titles out this week, but this one s the star. Directed by the genius behind the aforementioned Scarface and Rio Bravo, this screwball romance pits a professorial Cooper against the streetwise Barbara Stanwyck. (San Antonio Current, TX)
On board, the commandant received Leslie Caron, Lana Turner, Gary Cooper, Kirk Douglas and lots of others for a party. Totally unknown and very intimidated, I hid behind Vadim when the commandant greeted me and shouted to the crew in the middle of the bridge, "That's Brigitte!" Not knowing how to answer, I said, "Hello, men!" Everyone went crazy. (CNN -- Showbiz)
The film showcases early performances of future award winning stage and screen actors Tallulah Bankhead, Cary Grant and Gary Cooper. The screening of Devil and the Deep will be at 2 p.m. Sunday. (Demopolis Times, AL)
Kevin Costner throws off his Gary Cooper mantle of decency to play a serial killer in "Mr. Brooks " (his criminal alter ego is played by William Hurt ; now that's scary). Angelina Jolie takes on the role of Mariane Pearl , widow of the slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl , in "A Mighty Heart .". (Boston Globe)
The best nominated picture that year was High Noon, in which Marshall Wil Kane (Gary Cooper) is abandoned by everyone in the town hes trying to protect. Where are the others. (MSNBC -- Academy Awards)
Over the years, its rooms housed actor Gary Cooper, boxers Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis and a young Richard Nixon. But it has been vacant since 1983 and has deteriorated to the point that the city wants it declared a nuisance. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
In 1952, the house gained fame by appearing in the black and white Oscar-winning Western "High Noon." Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly filmed a scene inside the home, putting the town of Columbia in the national spotlight, if only briefly. "My mother was in quite a few movies as an extra," Sweeley said of the many movie crews that used Columbia as a location. (The Union Democrat)
Gary Cooper called to invite Granger to a party for Clark Gable. Granger quickly accepted. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
99), with filmmakers' commentary and featurettes, while MGM reissues Pride of the Yankees, starring Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig, in a fresh 65th Anniversary Edition ($14. 98). (Washington Times, DC)
" Guy Pearce stars as a man who, though crippled by short-term memory loss, sets out to find his wife's murderer. The film ambitiously divides its narrative into black-and-white explanatory scenes and color action scenes cast in reverse chronology. The leaps of logic throughout "Memento" make it sometimes difficult but an overall exhilarating watch.Several films in the series don't manipulate time at all. Instead, they play out in real-time -- rarely seen in film today, what with editing,... (The Dartmouth Online, NH)
They made his life into a movie because he died of the disease that now bears his name: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. His life, and the subsequent movie starring Gary Cooper, had a classic dramatic arc: rise (Yankee stardom), fall (ALS) and resurrection (I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth). Most baseball biopics in the 1940s and 50s followed suit. (MSNBC -- Movies)
"From: Andy Williams Date: 2 April 2007 Comment: Best scenes that you missedHow could you miss Agincourt from Henry V?What about the battle in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? Much better than any of Peter Jackson's stuff, excepting the scene in LOTR where Sauron loses the Ring.I also have to say that Custer's last stand in Little Big Man was well done. Richard Mulligan was brilliant.We Were Soldiers.Worst scenes that you missedAny battle scene from Windtalkers.From: John Fowler Date: 2... (CNN -- Showbiz)
Gary Cooper and his wife, Rocky, posed on their Valley Center ranch in the late 1940s ... John Wayne stopped by looking for Randolph Scott, a nobleman played host to the Prince of Wales, Gary Cooper threw legendary parties, and Fred Astaire raised his family ... Not far away is the home that Lerner said came to be known as Gary Cooper's "party house." The house hasn't been occupied for 25 years and is rundown inside, but a hint of its former glory still can be imagined. (North County Times)
You may remember the sparks flying between Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in the movie version. On the verge of being pink-slipped, Ann bangs out a column about John Doe, an Everyman so fed up with the sorry state of America that, in protest, he vows to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge on Christmas Eve. (Washington Times)
What was funny and charming about Gary Cooper in his early Western roles was that you could see his mind searching for more words than he knew how to pronounce and more thoughts than he could articulate. But Bob Lee Swagger is a man of no adjectives and few verbs or nouns. (SunSpot.net)
Starring Fay Wray, Gary Cooper and Lane Chandler. Forest for the Trees (1998) Zach McAllister is an overworked law student who decides that he needs a little relaxation. (Sunspot.net -- Business)
Mr. Zinnemann became a major director as a result of back-to-back hits in 1952 and 1953: "High Noon" and "From Here to Eternity." The former was a major Academy Award contender and won the best actor prize for its star, Gary Cooper; the latter was the front-runner of its year, with 13 nominations and eight Oscars, including best movie and direction. By then Mr. Zinnemann was in his middle 40s and had surpassed the usually modest expectations appropriate for a director of live-action shorts at... (Washington Times, DC)
wrote on March 12, 2007 12:53 PM:"Try Cecil B. DeMille's 1936 epic 'The Plainsman,' about among other things a hapless 'romance' between the rather stuffy repressed unforgiving 'Wild Bill' Hickok played so perfectly by the incomparable Gary Cooper and the 'wild girl,' the infamous 'Calamity Jane' Canary portrayed in the winningest western tom-boy way by Jean Arthur, one of the best actresses of Hollywood. Calamity's desperate relentless love for a man who continually scorns her becomes in this... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
This past weekend, my kids and I watched the classic Western "High Noon." As you might recall, the film centers on the efforts of a town marshal played by Gary Cooper trying to recruit deputies who will help him stand up to a gang of killers heading for town. The local population cherishes the peace Coopers character has brought to the town during his tenure, but they arent willing to help him fight for it. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Charming Gary Cooper film about a Quaker family standing up for its religious beliefs while the country faces the Civil War conflict. I Remember Mama. (Gospelcom.net)
"I used to do that. I thought about it one time and said, I'm really lying. My influences were Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness. The guys who changed up. I watched their movies. That's what made me want to do it. "Gary Cooper was always Gary Cooper," he continues. "You're watching the actor. It's the persona. (Boston Globe -- Living)
A wise man once mused, "You don't have to win to be a champion." Granted, this man was not John Wayne, Gary Cooper, or even a moo-moo-wearing Marlon Brando. Instead, it proved to be this film reviewer's high school biology teacher and, to this day, he has no idea how startlingly dead-on these particular words have rung true. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
I think every actor wants to have their, like for me its Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart or whatever and this was that movie for me. It was my Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. (MoviesOnline)
It is the darling of Hollywood, having co-starred with Clint Eastwood ("Rawhide," "Pale Rider," "Unforgiven"), Gary Cooper ("The Virginian," "High Noon") and Michael Landon ("Little House on the Prairie") to name just a few. And now it is slipping quietly away for a two-year face lift. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Within minutes of meeting Daphne, Joe is smitten, though the only reason the movie provides for this reaction is that they re sitting on a cozy sofa together watching Daphne s favorite actor, Gary Cooper ... This last is especially egregious and self-defeating, as the Gary Cooper movies Daphne names or watches Love in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls Mr. Deeds Goes to Town make the one she s in seem that much worse by comparison. (PopMatters)
"He has a little bit of a laconic style, sort of in the mold of Gary Cooper. (Part of it was) the first films he was in, these cheap Italian spaghetti Westerns that were considered junk. We look at those (Italian director Sergio) Leone films now and they're great baroque works of art with (noted composer Ennio) Morricone doing his first scores and the picture compositions are of these great vistas and close-ups of people's eyes." Even old-school movie stars turned their noses up at Eastwood, who... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
She is determined that none of her daughters will repeat her long ago mistakes that have resulted in gourmet meals for one enjoyed in front of a Gary Cooper movie with only her canine pal as company. There's no happiness for her unless all her daughters are happy. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
PALESTINE - "Love in the Afternoon," Billy Wilder's 1957 romantic comedy starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier, is the next feature in the Palestine Convention and Visitors Bureau's Classic Movies in Reagan Park series. The screening will begin at 7 p.m. "or dusk" in the park, organizers said. (Tyler Morning Telegraph, TX)
The first one I had was of Gary Cooper in the 40s and I had to cut it out of a fan magazine. My best friend Lucy and I, pouring over Picturegoer - was it. (Guardian Unlimited)
A film of The Fountainhead in 1949 - starring Gary Cooper as a heroic architect - got a mixed reception. Rand, who wrote the script, was said to have been upset when the director cut a single line from a six-minute Cooper speech. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
With the Ja-Da four, Mancuso performed on such TV showcases as "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts," "The Perry Como Kraft Music Hall" and "The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom." She remembers meeting Hollywood icon Gary Cooper and sitting next to another legend, singer Lena Horne, in a backstage makeup chair before a TV appearance. "I didn't think it was that unusual," she says. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Life)
His was an extension of the American blues within the context embodied by Gary Cooper in Meet John Doe (1941), Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), and Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), all of whom had a heroic gripe with some aspect of the system. What Brando actually did was bring the new urban harmonies necessary to whisper and belt out the blues created by the gangster forces in the shadow world of the city. (Slate)
His writings focused on high-society types and powerful politicians ranging from a conversation with actor Gary Cooper to a fake news conference held by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In the Eisenhower column, Buchwald poked fun at the press for not asking the president hard questions during a NATO meeting in Paris. (Astoria Times, NY)
Gary Cooper and James Stewart seek justice; John Wayne and Clint Eastwood seek revenge. Humphrey Bogart and George Clooney demand candor from a duplicitous world. (New Yorker)
In these interviews Walters delves into the lives and loves of Hollywood legends Hepburn, Keaton, and Loren: Hepburn confesses that she fell in love with all of her leading men such as Gary Cooper and Peter O'Toole, and wants to be remembered for her work in her first film Roman Holiday; Keaton reveals that although she's had relationships with such notables as Woody Allen, Warren Beatty and Al Pacino no one has ever asked to marry her; and Loren explains her choice to marry Carlo Ponti over... (PR Newswire)
1941: Gary Cooper, "Sergeant York" (Alvin C. York). 1942: James Cagney, "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (George M. Cohan). (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
He became friends with Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Elvis Presley, Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper, among others. His engagement with Yvonne didn't last quite 38 years, or 38 weeks for that matter. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
"I'm a creature of habit, and I tend to get into things like ... everything Quentin Tarantino ever made," he says, rattling off a few titles: "Kill Bill: Vol. 1," Kill Bill: Vol. 2," "Pulp Fiction," "True Romance" and "Reservoir Dogs," which he credits with getting him hooked on the director/writer/actor's works. He also likes to watch old war movies starring screen legends such as John Wayne, Van Johnson and Gary Cooper. He goes for the old black and white films because unlike today, they... (The Standard-Times, MA)
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