Gary Cooper Articles

MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936) Direction: Frank Capra Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Douglass Dumbrille, Lionel Stander, H. B. Warner, Ruth Donnelly, Raymond Walburn, Margaret Seddon, Margaret McWade Screenplay: Robert Riskin; from Clarence Budington Kelland “Opera Hat” Oscar Movies Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Frank Capra By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: There is a tendency among some to think that all the art [...]

Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Gary Cooper is the "star of the evening" on Turner Classic Movies. Frank Capra’s messy Meet John Doe, which can never quite decide where it stands socially and politically, is on right now. The movie is made watchable by Cooper’s and, especially, Barbara Stanwyck’s performances. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town could’ve been just as messy as [...]

Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer in Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (top); Carroll Baker in Elia Kazan’s Baby Doll (bottom) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 20th Anniversary Tribute to The Film Foundation ends this weekend, with a screening of Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (1946), a spy thriller/film noir starring Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer, and Alfred Hitchcock’s personal favorite film, Shadow of a [...]

Patricia Neal at her melodramatic-est with on-screen and off-screen lover Gary Cooper in King Vidor’s over-the-top The Fountainhead(1949), based on Ayn Rand’s novel Patricia Neal: An Appreciation – Part I Several years later, I got myself a copy of Neal’s autobiography (actually written by Richard DeNeut), As I Am, which had been published in the late ’80s. I became enthralled. I couldn’t put the book [...]