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(1940s) Gary Cooper
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
PEOPLE
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Gary Cooper
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<p>(March 3, 1941)
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<p> Tens of thousands of fans know that Gary Cooper is 6 feet 2
3/4 inches tall, 175 pounds heavy, 40 years old, and that if he
grew a beard he would look rather like Abraham Lincoln. To his
friends he is "Coop." Though special tributes are often paid him
where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as
sometimes finds it way toward the ears of Clark Gable.
Boyfriends and husbands watch him without defensive squirming.
Had Coop been a longshoreman he might well have been the most
popular, of not the most active, man at the waterfront bars. Had
he gone to Yale he might well have been the Most Popular Man in
his class. As it was, he went to Hollywood and became the most
popular man in the nation--an ideal choice for Capra-Riskin's
Meet John Doe.
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<p> He began to get many roles that he liked almost as well as
millions who watched them. They included: A Farewell to Arms,
Desire, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Beau Geste, Mr. Deeds Goes to
Town, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. Coop considered his acting more
& more. But even when he was "acting to beat hell...just pouring
it on," his fans praised him for his indestructible naturalness.
It is this quality, which almost every American likes to
identify with himself, that accounts for Cooper's tremendous
appeal to all kinds of Americans. It is also American to believe
that the greatest naturalness is to be found in the great Open
Spaces, and to cherish the natives thereof. Years ago, with Tom
Mix, Bill Hart and Will Rogers, U.S. moviemakers discovered to
their profit these simple truths, and the legend is that a
cowboy has saved every studio in Hollywood.</p>
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