GARY COOPER

American actor. The creator of the image of skinny, good-hearted Yankee, laconic, but is able to outsmart the "bad guys". Appeared in the films "The works and days of a Bengal Lancer" (1935), "Mr. Deeds moved to the City" (1936), "Sergeant York" (1941, the prize "Oscar"), "High Noon" (1952, the prize "Oscar" ), etc. In 1960 he was awarded a special prize "Oscar" for his great contribution to the art of cinema.

Cooper received his art education in England. He tried to become a cartoonist, but newspapers and magazines reacted to his cartoon cool. In the early 1920s, the stuntman, he got a job at the studio, where he is a very handy skill to perfect stay in the saddle, he had learned at the family ranch in Montana. Sometimes in the same film, he replaced in the stunt actors playing and cowboys and Indians.

When Cooper was pretty tired to fall from their horses, he hired an agent Nenu Collins and asked her to find a suitable role in any film.

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Agent to the task. Soon, Gary starred in the title role in "Conquest of Barbara Worth" (1926), and one of the largest U. S. movie studios, "Paramount" has signed a contract with him.

Gary Cooper is rapidly gaining points, until it finally became one of the "star" Actors United States. Its unprecedented scale popularity fell only twice: in 1944, when he spoke in a radio program with sharp criticism of Roosevelt, and in 1957 when he starred in "Love in the Afternoon" as a lover of eighteen Audrey Hepburn. Critics and many fans of his talent when it seemed that he was too old for the role. Pyatidesyatisemiletny Cooper made this film after cosmetic surgery. The actor died in 1961 from cancer of the spinal cord.

Cooper enjoyed unprecedented success among Hollywood divas. When, for example, Tallulah Bankhead, the actress was asked why she moved from New York to Hollywood, she replied: "Yes to sleep with this divine Gary Cooper. "

Actress Helen Hayes said that without a second thought would leave her husband and moved to a Cooper if he ever hinted about it during the filming of "A Farewell to Arms.

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The film company "Warner Brothers" delayed release in the forties on the screens of one of the film, which starred starring Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Bosses film company feared that the close relations established between the actors during filming, lead to the collapse of the two families, which will result in irreparable blow at the box office. Bergman later said: "Every woman who knew Cooper was in love with him. "

Cooper's legal wife was an actress from New York, Veronica Balfe, whom everyone called Rocky. Their wedding took place in 1933. From the outset of marriage his wife gave each other full liberty. They are often long lived in different cities. Once there was a curious case in which they independently arrived at the same resort, settled in different rooms of a hotel, and then, never met, went to travel further.

The first famous mistress Cooper was Clara Bow, with whom he starred in the movie "It" in 1927. In his diary, Clara evaluated their lovers.

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Cooper has put it without hesitation "excellent", and in a letter to her friend Hedda Hopper admiringly told that he was "a real stud, and can make love all night long. " Clara broke up with him after he invited her to join him in marriage.

Lupe Velez with actress Cooper met in 1929 while filming "Wolf Song". A day after a pair of singles have already enjoyed the love games in a hotel room. This relationship continued for several years. But the frequent quarrels brought Cooper to the nervous and physical exhaustion, and eventually he broke all ties with Velez.

During the long trip to Europe he met with Cooper, Dorothy di Frasso, an American who married an Italian count. In Hollywood, they came back together. Dorothy became famous for splendid receptions are often arranged. Acquaintance with Veronica Balfe soon replaced in the life of Dorothy Cooper, and she went to Palm Springs, famous for his sensational where communication with a known gangster Bugs Siegel.

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With 23-year-old Patricia Neal Cooper met in 1949. They loved each other so that Gary tried to officially divorce the Rocky in 1950. He even visited with Patricia in Havana, his friend Ernest Hemingway, but he strongly dissuaded from Cooper's divorce. Rocky, meanwhile continued to live her life to the former. He was undergoing a quarrel with his wife. Gary did not find much joy in the novel with Neil. Besides, he was no longer fun to 50-year-old actor's exasperated arthritis, back pain and stomach ulcers. In May 1951, Cooper and Patricia ways parted. She came for treatment to a psychoanalyst, and he, having gone through a few more or a non-binding novels, has returned to the bosom of the family, where I finally made peace with Rocky, and daughter Maria.