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Cooper’s immaculate suiting now came courtesy of Anderson & Sheppard; he owned a fleet of cars, including a Bentley and a 1935 Duesenberg SSJ (which, in their increasingly tenuous attempts to stress his simple-man bona- fides, his PR team stressed that he soaped down himself ), and he amassed a formidable art collection, including works by Renoir, Gauguin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Pablo Picasso. Cooper had met the latter in France, and told him: “You’re a hell of a guy, but I don’t really get the pictures.” Picasso, tickled, apparently replied: “That doesn’t matter. If you really want to do something for me, get me one of those hats you wear in the movies.” A 10-gallon-Cubist masterpiece swap was duly effected. “Picasso was not alone in being charmed by Cooper’s directness and his refusaltobewhathewasnot,”wrote Life magazine.
While Cooper’s personal life was increasingly swell-egant, his wor
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Gary Cooper
American actor (1901–1961)
Not to be confused with the English actor, Garry Cooper.For other people with similar names, see Gary Cooper (disambiguation).
Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, as well as an Academy Honorary Award in 1961 for his career achievements. He was one of the top-10 film personalities for 23 consecutive years and one of the top money-making stars for 18 years. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper at number 11 on its list of the 50 greatest screen legender.
Cooper's career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included leading roles in 84 feature films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent spelfilm era through to the end of the golden age of classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed
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Gary Cooper (1901-1961)
In 1940, Cooper starred in The Westerner, a movie about the life of Judge Roy Bean. Walter Brennan played the crafty old judge and stole the movie, winning a Best Supporting Oscar. It must have seemed to Cooper that playing historical figures made good sense, and he soon followed with a string of biopics beginning with Sergeant York (1941), for which he won his first Best Actor Oscar.
He followed that with The Pride of the Yankees (1942), playing baseball great Lou Gehrig, and The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944), a movie loosely based on the true story of a hero in the Pacific campaign during World War II. It seemed as if Cooper was off to a fresh start in the postwar years when he produced and starred in his own western, the agreeable Along Came Jones (1945). But, finally, after 20 years, Cooper’s popularity began to falter. His performances in the latter 1940s were flaccid; even in his more interesting films, such as The Fountainhead (1949) based on Ayn Rand’