Cooper

Filming The Virginian (1930)

In I TAKE THIS WOMAN

In FIGHTING CARAVANS

In MOROCCO

Gary Cooper, 1930-31

2,000th post

For my two-thousandth post, I am featuring Gary Cooper, one of the main reasons I started collecting photographs. I thought, in my naïveté, that there was one image out there that captured Cooper in all his beauty, his physicality, his allure.

Silly me.

Rafael Sole with Gary Cooper and Fay Wray

Photos by Bredell

Shirley Temple and Gary Cooper

Shirley Temple and Gary Cooper in NOW AND FOREVER (1934).

I Take This Woman (1931)

Fighting Caravans (1931)

Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez

Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez in THE WOLF SONG (1929).

Early Gary Cooper

Fay Wray and Gary Cooper in THE FIRST KISS (1928).

Gary Cooper and Marion Davies in OPERATOR 13 (1934)

Tatters

Bill Lamm by Bruce of Los Angeles

Esther Ralston and Gary Cooper filming HALF A BRIDE (1928)

Gary Cooper and Fay Wray

“Gary Cooper and Fay Wray, ‘Paramount’s glorious young lovers,’ here in THE LEGION OF THE CONDEMNED [1928], their first big picture together, execute a touching love scene in one of the tensest moments of the big new aviation melodrama.”

Academy Founders 9

N.B. The member numbers follow The Internet Movie Database's list order announcing the Academy in January 1927.

9. Henry King (1886-1982) of the Directors Branch. The photo is by Woodbury Studio. 

Harry King was a reliable spotter of talent, picking out Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, and Tyrone Power (Jr.), among others. As with Cecil B. DeMille, the Academy was chary with honors: King was twice nominated for Oscars, but never won as Best Director. That said, in 1956 the Directors Guild of America honored him for lifetime achievement.

Gary Cooper by Cecil Beaton

Gary Cooper by Edward Steichen

Early on, I went through a bit of an Instagram phase…