In Reply to: Funny...every time I think of Cooper playing Howard....I laugh to myself... posted by TWB on November 20, 2006 at 04:38:10:
taciturn, "aw shucks" characters truly was acting: he was known as a good raconteur and one of Hollywoods best dressers and womanizers, quite the equal of his competitors in those fields, Errol Flynn and Cary Grant.
"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Gunga Din," and "High Noon" underscore his successes in playing quite different characters.
What actor today could bring to such vivid life the iconic bravery of the sheriff in "High Noon?"
Cooper came to this versatility naturally: his father owned and worked a six-hundred acre ranch in Montana and Gary also spent many years, as a boy, at school in England.
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- Let me re-visit the comment, "limited." Actually, Cooper, in portraying - tinear 05:03:08 11/20/06 (3)
- my comment was based on Cooper in The Fountainhead....Hollywood got the casting... - TWB 04:41:35 11/21/06 (0)
- Re: Let me re-visit the comment, "limited." Actually, Cooper, in portraying - patrickU 05:12:44 11/20/06 (0)
- Re: Let me re-visit the comment, "limited." Actually, Cooper, in portraying - patrickU 05:10:30 11/20/06 (0)