Gary Cooper demonstrating just how tall his companion was (Coop was around 6’3”)
Gary Cooper with his new Chrysler, 1937.
Gary Cooper at home, 1950s
Gary Cooper at his Hollywood home
Photograph by Don English
April 16, 1930
MOTHER VISITS SON - Gary Cooper is practically superstition-less, but there’s one superstition to which he clings—that a visit from his Mother, Mrs. Charles Cooper, to the set of each of his pictures brings him good luck. Here is the lady paying her son a call during the filming of Paramount’s new Ernst Lubitsch comedy, “Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife,” in which Gary co-stars with Claudette Colbert.
Rocky Cooper, Claudette Colbert blinking, and Gary Cooper
“OSCARS” FOR COOPER AND QUINN
CUERNAVACA, MEXICO……… VETERAN FILM FAVORITE GARY COOPER (LEFT) AND ANTHONY QUINN EMBRACE AFTER LEARNING OF THEIR SELECTION FOR “OSCARS” BY THE 25TH ANNUAL ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES. COOPER RECEIVED HIS “OSCAR” FOR HIS PERFORMANCE IN “HIGH NOON”. QUINN WAS AWARDED HIS FOR THE BEST PERFORMANCE BY A SUPPORTING ACTOR IN “VIVA ZAPATA”. COOPER, WINNER OF HIS SECOND “OSCAR”. AND QUINN ARE ON LOCATION NEAR CUERNAVACA MAKING A NEW FILM, “BLOWING WILD”. WHEN INFORMED OF HIS SELECTION, COOPER DRAWLED, “I’M A HELL OF AN ACTOR. I GET MY INSPIRARATION FROM THE PEOPLE WHO WORK WITH ME…”
Steve Cochran and Gary Cooper at right with Barbara Payton, Leif Erikson and Reed Hadley at left on the set of the film “Dallas”
James Cagney and Gary Cooper at the 15th Academy Awards, March 1943
Gary Cooper in “Along Came Jones” (1945)
