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Cooper, Gary
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
COOPER, Gary Nationality: American. Born: Frank James Cooper in Helena, Montana, 7 May 1901. Education: Dunstable College, England, until WWI; Wesleyan College, Bozeman, Montana; Grinnell College, Iowa. Family: Married Veronica...
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High Noon
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Washington, sung by Tex Ritter. Cast: Gary Cooper (Will Kane ); Thomas Mitchell...Coop: The Life and Legend of Gary Cooper, New York, 1980. Swindell...Summer 1958. Clarens, Carlos, "Gary Cooper," in Films in Review (New York...
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Westerns
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Frontier fiction had been popular since James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels (1823 – 1841...1940s and 1950s, with such stars as Wayne, Henry Fonda, Gary Cooper, James Stewart, and Barbara Stanwyck appearing in increasingly...
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Das Boot
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...the self-convinced, righteous robots of the new generation of Nazis. Once set up, this message is continually repeated. Prochnow's "speech" to his men before shipping out is vintage Gary Cooper: "Well men—all set? H
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Cromwell, John
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...status on such films as The Street of Chance, with William Powell, and The Texan and Seven Days' Leave, both with Gary Cooper. Once established as an ace director, he went over to the new RKO studios, where in 1933 he directed such movies...
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McGuire, Dorothy
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Agreement and Friendly Persuasion, and starring opposite such household names as Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, and Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire's fame was a steady, but quiet one. In 1931, she made her professional theatrical debut at age...
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Harlan, Russell
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...laboratory assistant at Famous Players-Lasky; 1928–29—brief period as stand-in and stuntman for Gary Cooper; 1950s—much TV work. Died: 28 February 1974. Films as Cinematographer: 1937 North of the Rio Grande...
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Cowboys
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...masculinity. Later, motion picture and television portrayals by such actors as William S. Hart, Tom Mix, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers, further defined and reinforced the model, as did countless novels and short stories...
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Robbins, Tim
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...as Nelson) 1985 Fraternity Vacation (Frawley) (as Larry "Mother" Tucker); The Sure Thing (Rob Reiner) (as Gary Cooper); Malice in Wonderland (The Rumor Mill ) (Trikonis—for TV) (as Joseph Cotten) 1986 Howard the Duck...
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Duryea, Dan
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...portrayal of the reporter in Pride of the Yankees. As the evil counterpart for the lanky heroes of the 1940s, particularly Gary Cooper in Along Came Jones, Duryea brought out the emerging attitude of disillusionment toward the end of World War II and...
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