Blowing Wild
Directed by Hugo Fregonese
Gary Cooper – Jeff Dawson
In South America, when Jeff Dawson and Dutch Peterson's oil rigs are dynamited by local bandits, the two partners resort to risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise money.
Also starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ruth Roman, Anthony Quinn and Ward Bond.
During filming Gary Cooper won his second Oscar for High Noon, while Anthony Quinn won his first Oscar for Viva Zapata!
Beau Sabreur
Directed by John Waters 70 mins (1928)
Gary Cooper – Maj. Henri de Beaujolais
Beau Sabreur is a 1928 American silent film directed by John Waters and starring Gary Cooper and Evelyn Brent. Based on the novel Beau Sabreur by P. C. Wren, who also wrote Beau Geste, the film is about a desert-bound member of the French Foreign Legion who exposes a betrayer to the Legion and is then sent on a mission among the Arabs to conclude the signing of a crucial peace treaty.
Also starring Evelyn Brent, Noah Beery, William Powell, Roscoe Karns and Mitchell Lewis.
The characters played by Noah Beery and William Powell died in the original Beau Geste; in this sequel the actors return but play different characters.
Maria Cooper Janis was born in Los Angeles, California and lived there with her parents, the actor Gary Cooper and his wife Veronica Cooper.
She followed a painting career in New York and in 1966 married the world renowned concert pianist, Byron Janis. Although Mr. Janis’ busy schedule has led them all over the world, Mrs. Janis has enjoyed a successful career as an artist. She pursues her paintings with great energy, exhibiting in the United States as well as Europe and Asia.
Gary Cooper was born Frank James Cooper in Helena, Montana, one of two sons of an English farmer from Bedfordshire, who later became an American lawyer and judge, Charles Henry Cooper (1865-1946), and Kent-born Alice (née Brazier) Cooper (1873-1967). His mother hoped for their two sons to receive a better education than that available in Montana and arranged for the boys to attend Dunstable Grammar School in Bedfordshire, England between 1910 and 1913.Upon the outbreak of World War I, Cooper’s mother brought her sons home and enrolled them in a Bozeman, Montana, high school
Along Came Jones
Directed by Stuart Heisler 90 mins (1945)
Gary Cooper - Melody Jones
A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.
Also starring Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea and Frank Sully
Gary Cooper's first effort as an independent producer through his company Cinema Artists Corp. It was the only feature film produced by Cooper during his movie career. He mercilessly spoofs his own slow-talking cowboy persona.
Alice in Wonderland
Directed by Norman Z. Mc Leod 76 mins (1933)
Gary Cooper – White Knight
On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams that she’s visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening to her, like changing her size or playing croquet with flamingos.
Also starring Charlotte Henry, Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Leon Errol and Cary Grant
Virtually the entire star stable was thrown into this movie because Paramount was trying to keep from going bankrupt and thought that such a star-laden movie could save the studio from failing. It didn't work since most of the stars couldn't be recognized because of their costumes. Instead, two Mae West movies, She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel saved the studio from bankruptcy instead.
by G. Bruce Boyer and Maria Cooper Janis
Design by Ruth Ansel
Introduction by Ralph Lauren
“Dressed up like a million-dollar trouper Tryin’ hard to look like Gary Cooper / Super duper” – “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” Irving Berlin (revised lyrics, 1946)
In 1946, when Irving Berlin revised the lyrics to his 1928 “Puttin’ on the Ritz” to include those memorable lines, Gary Cooper had been a star for over 15 years, and it would have been hard for most men to look as super duper. He conveyed a straightforwardness and an honest, American handsomeness that seemed to both ignore and rise above the contrived glamour and studied posturing that had characterized so many other film heroes of those early years. No matter what costume he put on, he looked like he owned it. The camera loved him, and so did the box office.
A Man from Wyoming
Directed by Rowland V. Lee
Gary Cooper – Jim Baker
When World War One pulls the U.S. in, builder Jim Baker goes enthusiastically. The misery of life in the trenches seems to take any romantic edge off, until adventure seeking general's daughter Patricia Hunter is caught foolishly wandering around the front line. At length, they fall in love and marry. When he is reported dead, she becomes irresponsible and turns her family's mansion into a wild party site, one which Jim eventually comes to.
Also starring June Collyer, Regis Toomey, Morgan Farley, E.H Calvert and Mary Foy
by Glenn Frankel
Book Release on February 21st: “HIGH NOON – The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
It’s one of the most revered movies of Hollywood’s golden age. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in her first significant movie role, High Noon achieved instant box-office and critical success. But what is often overlooked is that High Noon was made during the height of the Hollywood blacklist, a time of political inquisition and personal betrayal. In the middle of the film shoot, screenwriter Carl Foreman was called to testify about his former membership in the Communist Party, facing the painful dilemma of whether to name names or sacrifice his brilliant career. As he pondered what to do, Foreman turned his screenplay into a parable about fear, repression and the cost of courage.
by Henryk Hoffmann
Four Hollywood Legends in World Literature: References to Bogart, Cooper, Gable and Tracy
Henryk Hoffmann’s Four Hollywood Legends in World Literature: References to Bogart, Cooper, Gable and Tracy is an extraordinary resource, grounded in massive research and filled with insights about the way four iconic Hollywood figures have inspired and influenced an astonishing range of literary and creative works. In an interview, Hoffmann described the qualities that made Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, and Spencer Tracy uniquely influential, and the ways that their lives and their work were reflected in books by writers from Larry McMurtry to Elmore Leonard.
