La Posada Hotel, Winslow Nov 19, 2009
Now photos of movie stars such as Gary Cooper and Jane Russell, as well as those of other public figures, hang on the walls. Guests can enjoy fine dining in the Turquoise Room, operated by chef John Sharp. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Barbara Stanwyck Among Finest Film ... Nov 12, 2009
Stanwyck is a cynical reporter whose fake inspirational story hooks her up with altruistic Gary Cooper. Ball of Fire, the hilarious comedy from director Howard Hawks. (Suite101.com)
At Best Western, identity at issue Nov 8, 2009
In pitching the new strategy at Best Western's annual convention in downtown Phoenix last month, he jokingly said he felt like Gary Cooper in the 1950s Western "High Noon." Best Western Chairwoman Bonnie McPeake said the issue keeps her up at night. Risky proposition. (AZCentral -- Business)
Best of Claudette is all set Nov 2, 2009
Two romantic comedies, Ernst Lubitsch's "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" (1938) with Gary Cooper, and "I Met Him in Paris" (1937), co-starring Robert Young and Melvyn Douglas, round out the set ... Two romantic comedies, Ernst Lubitsch's "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" (1938) with Gary Cooper, and "I Met Him in Paris" (1937), co-starring Robert Young and Melvyn Douglas, round out the set. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Turner Classic Movies & Universal Studios Home Entertainment Team Up to Offer Made-to-Order DVDs of Rare Films Oct 29, 2009
The Devil and the Deep (1932) - This melodrama is headlined by Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant and Charles Laughton. The setting is the northern coast of Africa, where submarine commander Laughton is stationed and where his wife, Bankhead, is splitting her time between suitors Cooper and Grant. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Shop Tours of Locomotive Restoration Oct 29, 2009
After its 1919 debut in the silent serial film The Red Glove, Sierra No. 3 appeared in The Virginian in 1929 with Gary Cooper, the first sound movie filmed outside of a Hollywood sound stage. About a year later, the locomotive starred in The Texan, but as the Depression began, Sierra No. 3 was sidelined while the Sierra Railway went through bankruptcy and reorganization. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
Daily television listings Oct 27, 2009
A sheriff (best actor Oscar winner Gary Cooper) vs. four killers. NR (1952). (Boston Globe)
Hollywood’s love affair with aviation has had its ups, downs Oct 18, 2009
Perhaps the most startling thing about Wings is that Gary Cooper was seventh-billed. THE AVIATOR (2004) In no other movie are aviation and film so breathlessly braided together. (Boston Globe)
Daily TV and radio guide Oct 17, 2009
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Its a free for all Sep 18, 2009
for example, the is having a Museum Day party with a magic show, free sandwiches and a showing of the movie Distant Drums, which was filmed in the Florida Everglades more than 50 years ago and stars Gary Cooper. A free day to peruse a parkSpeaking of the Everglades, the is one of the 391 national parks across the country where entrance fees will be waived on Sept. 26, in honor of. (MSNBC -- Travel)
How Americans dealt with the Depression Sep 13, 2009
It cannot, and does not, include every last memorable artifact of the era, and some may be alarmed by the absence of Gary Cooper, or Count Basie, or Raymond Hood. Dickstein, however, is exhaustive without being exhausting, and his book is a commendable compression of a complex decade. (Boston Globe)
Gary Cooper Commemorated on Stamp Sep 13, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Iconic actor Gary Cooper returned to a "stamping ovation" today as the 15th inductee into the Legends of Hollywood collectible stamp series ... Art director Phil Jordan of Falls Church, VA, designed the Gary Cooper stamp using a portrait by artist Kazuhiko Sano of Mill Valley, CA. The image is based on a black-and-white circa 1940 George Hurrell photograph ... Joining Kessler in dedicating the stamp was Cooper's daughter Maria Cooper Janis, film... (PR Newswire)
Infotainment Sep 12, 2009
Legendary Hollywood cowboy Gary Cooper lassoed a posthumous honour, his image gracing a new stamp unveiled by the US postal service. The two-time Oscar-winning tough guy, best known for his role in the classic 1952 Western High Noon, received the honour in a ceremony at the Autry National Centre of. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Hollywood icon Gary Cooper gets stamp of approval Sep 11, 2009
" onclick="Next();" src="/images/butt_next. " Cooper, who died in 1961 aged 60, entered the movies in the 1920s where he found work playing cowboys, the legacy of his upbringing on a ranch in Montana. "My father would have been very flattered by this honor, but he was always very self deprecating," Cooper's daughter Maria Cooper Janis said Thursday. "If he were here today, he'd probably say, 'See, look what you get for falling off a horse. (Channelnewsasia.com)
Gary Cooper to be Commemorated on U.S. Stamp Sep 8, 2009
What: Gary Cooper commemorative stamp dedication ... Gary Cooper's daughter Maria Cooper Janis ... Gary Cooper Scholarship Recipient Sonya Oberly. (PR Newswire)
George Hamilton puts his life out in the open Aug 25, 2009
And I saw Gary Cooper, Ty Power, Clark Gable, and then they disappeared. You talk about "Gone With the Wind," Hollywood disappeared. (CNN)
Ministry marches to different drum Aug 23, 2009
IHOP's first comment on the case came last week, from IHOP board member Gary Cooper: "The Candlers were never on staff at IHOP-KC, although they did attend the Introduction to IHOP-KC class." That was the only connection, he said. And the IHOP Web site is clear that children should never fast. (Honolulu Advertiser)
So long, cowboy Aug 16, 2009
My sister and I called him 'Hollywood Happy,'" said Hughes' daughter, Priscilla. Walking into the family room of the Hughes home, visitors can feel the magic of old Hollywood. The room is covered with photographs and memorabilia from films and classic television. The actor performed in films starring Hollywood A-Listers such as Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and Tommy Lee Jones. In 2002, Hughes was honored as a Golden Boot recipient, which is the Western version of... (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
Love For Pianist Aug 16, 2009
MARIA Cooper Janis, daughter of screen legend Gary Cooper, is working on a book about her husband, classical pianist Byron Janis. A child prodigy, Janis has performed since age 11 with a totally numb little finger injured in an accident. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Cindy Peterson: Follow the Marauders on the net Aug 10, 2009
Gary Cooper, who was already on staff, will take over the inside linebackers now that Anderson is gone. Jason Challeen was then brought back to his alma mater to coach the wide receivers. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Classic Cowboys Never Die Aug 10, 2009
Think John Wayne or Tom Selleck; Richard Widmark, Robert Mitchum, Gary Cooper. It is only fitting that classic movie stars portray classic heroes. (Suite101.com)
Budd Schulberg, Boss of the Brando Waterfront Aug 7, 2009
" While B.P. rode herd over Cecil B. De Mille and Ernst Lubitsch, Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich, the teenage Budd enjoyed the attention of his father's sexy stars. Clara Bow, the It Girl of silent pictures, ran her fingers through the boy's hair and even suggested they go out partying. B.P. and his wife Adeline Jaffe, a literary agent, were rare New Deal Democrats among conservative moguls like Louis B. Mayer and unreconstructed primitives like Harry Cohn; and Budd extended their liberalism... (Time.com)
Celebrity Randians Aug 7, 2009
The American Conservative. Posted on August 5th, 2009 by. (The American Conservative)
With your buddies Jul 30, 2009
The venerable Flagstaff landmark opened on New Year's Day 1927, and over the years it has played host to a number of actors and musicians, including John Wayne, Freddie Mercury, Humphrey Bogart, Michael Stipe, Robert Englund, Gary Cooper, Anthony Hopkins and Michael J. Fox. You'll find live music in the bi-level cocktail lounge on weekends. (AZCentral -- Travel)
TV Q&A: Only one makes it in 'Made in Heaven' Jul 19, 2009
Gary Cooper was the star. Could this possibly be Cooper's first movie. (Florida Today)
Edward Steichen exhibits showcase breadth of photographer’s career Jul 19, 2009
Above: Edward Steichen s Evening Shoes by Vida Moore (left) and Self-Portrait With Photographic Paraphernalia ; below: portrait of actor Gary Cooper ... Other portraits aren t as well known, but the sitters are: Greta Garbo, Winston Churchill, Herbert Hoover, Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Lillian Gish, William Butler Yeats. (Boston Globe)
Daily guide for radio and television Jul 16, 2009
Gary Cooper in the Foreign Legion classic. NR (1939). (Boston Globe)
Son of WWI hero raising funds to save namesake school Jul 15, 2009
A 1941 movie starring Gary Cooper depicted the extreme bravery of this modest Christian, who struggled with pacifism during World War I.. Yet, when fellow soldiers were falling, York almost single-handedly led an attack on a German machine-gun nest, taking out machine guns, German soldiers and capturing more than 100 of the enemy. (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
One Of A Kind Jul 5, 2009
" Less than two years later Gehrig died at age 37. Ever since, ALS has been known as Lou Gehrig's Disease; there is still no cure. In 1999, another Yankees Hall of Famer, right-hander Catfish Hunter, died of the ALS at age 53. On Saturday, Major League Baseball will call attention to the illness in hopes of raising funds for ALS research. (You can check out MLB's for more information.) All players will wear a patch reading 4 ALS, and there will be ceremonies at each of the 15 ballparks where... (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- MLB)
DVD Report: This week's new releases (July 5, 2009) Jul 5, 2009
Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston are brothers doing hard time in the Foreign Legion in director William Wellman s desert adventure. Brian Donlevy nabbed a best supporting actor nod as the outfit s sadistic commander. (Boston Globe)
FRIEDMAN: Why there will simply never be another Lou Gehrig Jul 4, 2009
The oration has passed into American lore, thanks to old newsreels and its recitation by Gary Cooper, who portrayed Gehrig in the 1942 four-hankie film classic Pride of the Yankees. (On a personal note: My father and uncle, New York Giants fans but also fervent Gehrig admirers, witnessed the '39 event; to continue the family tradition, on Saturday I'll be with my daughter at the new Yankee Stadium, where the Bronx Bombers will face the. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- MLB)
Sergeant York Movie (1941) May 25, 2009
Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan Star in World War I Hero Film. Gary Cooper has the title role in the 1941 movie Sergeant York ... Gary Cooper plays the fabled World War I hero, with Walter Brennan and Joan Leslie also in the cast. (Suite101.com)
Playing it safe, Academy Awards style May 21, 2009
The best nominated picture that year was High Noon, in which Marshall Wil Kane (Gary Cooper) is abandoned by everyone in the town hes trying to protect. Where are the others. (MSNBC -- Academy Awards)
Classic film Sergeant York showing to honor Memorial Day May 18, 2009
Photo Courtesy of L. Tom Perry Special CollectionsGary Cooper as Sergeant York, to be shown in the HBLL on May 22 ... The film won two academy awards, Best Actor (Gary Cooper as Alvin York) and Best Film Editing and was nominated for nine other categories. (The Daily Universe, UT)
High Time Movie (1960) May 17, 2009
The movie was originally intended as a starring vehicle for Gary Cooper, who later became ill and succumbed to cancer on May 13, 1961 ... When an ill Gary Cooper could not make the film, Crosby stepped in and retooled the script to suit his musical and comedic talents. (Suite101.com)
Capt. Kirk, American icon? New Frontier renewed May 15, 2009
And, as we learn in an episode that re-enacts the shootout at the O.K. Corral, he's Gary Cooper _ not only a gangster of love but a space cowboy descended from frontiersmen. "He's the George Bush that George Bush pretended to be _ the compassionate conservative, the `uniter not the divider,'" says Richard Slotkin, author of "Gunfighter Nation" and a historian of the frontier. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
1939, the Greatest Year Ever For Mo... May 7, 2009
Beau Geste, a film about the foreign legion featuring a stellar cast led by beloved lead man Gary Cooper. The classic Drums Along the Mohawk, directed masterfully by one of the truly greats, John Ford, and featuring a young Henry Fonda. (Suite101.com)
Cannes' magic to shine despite recession May 7, 2009
But then almost everyone in the world of cinema - from Gary Cooper, Alfred Hitchcock, Sophia Loren through to Jean Cocteau and of course Brigitte Bardot - has at one point found the lure of Cannes irresistible. The festival has also become a major fashion event with designers around the world administering the final touches on their creations for a showing on Cannes' famous red carpet. (India Times)
New on DVD: Streisand, 'Stranded' and a thriller May 1, 2009
A Song Is Born (* * 1/2; 1948, Fox, unrated, $15): With Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, Howard Hawks' Technicolor remake of his own 1941 Ball of Fire misses the dynamite pairing of Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. But jazz lovers, rejoice: Here are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Lionel Hampton and more. (USA Today -- Life)
The Simpsons on Stamps! Apr 13, 2009
Nevertheless, this release is a major highlight of the 2009 stamp program that will also honor later in the year Bob Hope, Gary Cooper and early TV shows. The copyright of the article The Simpsons on Stamps. (Suite101.com)
Popularity of 'Major League' remains strong Apr 9, 2009
Even Gary Cooper in 'Pride of the Yankees,' they tried hard to make him look good, even making his uniform backwards so he could look like a lefty, which Lou Gehrig was. " Ward enlisted former Dodgers catcher Steve Yeager to be his technical advisor to make sure everyone looked the part. "I tip my hat to all the actors who trusted in me and believed in me," said Yeager, who was also cast as coach Duke Temple in the film. "They needed to believe that I wasn't going to get them hurt and show them... (MLB.com -- Milwaukee Brewers)
This Lady Isn't Close To Fair Apr 6, 2009
While her husband lies near death in the hospital, Claire is befriended by the imaginary "Fred" (Brian Sutherland) -- his full name, and this is a prime example of the show's sophomoric humor, is "Fred Astaire Gregory Peck Humphrey Bogart Gary Cooper George Peppard" -- who guides her through a whirlwind m. lange of scenes and musical numbers inspired by such Hepburn classics as "Roman Holiday," "Sabrina," "Funny Face," "Love in the Afternoon" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's." (For those unfamiliar... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
With 'ATLAS SHRUGGED,' Hollywood may have its first anti-bailout movie... Apr 3, 2009
The subject of the book would seem to fit with the kind of people who are willing to step up and take big chances," she said. The Rand involvement on earlier versions -- along with the verbiage-heavy sections -- is probably why there hasn't been a Rand project on the big screen in 60 years, not since Gary Cooper played Howard Roark in Warner Bros.' "The Fountainhead. " With some big-time entrepeneurs potentially coming board, there now may be a lot less shrugging and a lot more shooting. April... (The Drudge Report)
The Way We Were Mar 29, 2009
For either part or all of the pre-Code era, Paramount had Carole Lombard, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Gary Cooper, Ruth Chatterton, William Powell, Maurice Chevalier, Kay Francis, Fredric March and Jeanette MacDonald (in her "lingerie queen" years) under contract. They also had some of Hollywood's finest directors: Josef von Sternberg, Rouben Mamoulian, Cecil B. DeMille and Ernst Lubitsch. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Who is the heiress? Why is the messenger in the wrong play? Find out at Tombstone Repertory Co. in April Mar 26, 2009
(No, Gary Cooper, isn t in this one. The marshal and his wife are planning to move to Tombstone to open a stable, but haven t left Buffalo Chip. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Want to be a dude? Movies teach you how Mar 18, 2009
Its not the vintage stoicism of Gary Cooper, Robert Mitchum or Charles Bronson. Its not the sensitive pushover built from spare parts of old episodes of Donahue or the stupid surfer Valley Guy that Sean Penn and Keanu Reeves cut their teeth portraying. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Project saves Hemingway papers Mar 18, 2009
Many show Hemingway drinking with friends including Gary Cooper and Spencer Tracy at one of his favourite watering holes in Havana, El Floridita. Hemingway has been a cultural bridge between the US and Cuba. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The Civil War Depicted In Film Mar 13, 2009
Starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, and Anthony Perkins, the film, adapted from a novel, tells the story of an Indiana pacifist family. The Birdwells are a family of Quakers, meaning that violence runs counter to their beliefs. (Suite101.com)
Fantastic Fonda's Return Mar 11, 2009
Among those in the star studded audience: Geoffrey Rush, Dolly Parton, Rosie O Donnell and Kelli Carpenter, Marcia Gay Harden, Valerie Harper, David Hyde Pierce, Renee Zellweger, Rose MacGowan recovering from wrist and shoulder surgery, and Richard Kind, plus Maria Cooper Janis (the elegant daughter of legend Gary Cooper) and her famed musician husband Byron Janis, writer Patricia Bosworth, as well as Jane s family members: son Troy and daughter in law Simone, and step mother extraordinaire... (Fox News)
Three Books for the Current Crisis Mar 3, 2009
Ayn Rand may be the most famous of the three, because of the perennial popularity of her magnum opus, "Atlas Shrugged," and the occasional TV rebroadcast of the film version of her novel, "The Fountainhead," starring Gary Cooper. She is also the only one of the three who has left behind a small group of intellectual disciples, who publicize her philosophy (Objectivism) and carry on Rands uneasy, prickly relationship with fellow travelers on the right. (Newsmax)
Are the Oscars recession-proof? (95) Feb 24, 2009
His second Oscar for best actor puts him in the same company with Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks and Daniel Day-Lewis. -- Jerry Elsea [] Monday, February 23, 2009 04:24 AM PST. (Salon)
* Ol green eyes Feb 18, 2009
For his own inspiration, he says, he looked to John Wayne and Gary Cooper, old-time movie actors. I was influenced by James Cagney a lot. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Community connection Feb 18, 2009
The pair went to a meeting at the Myrna Loy Center of Performing Arts in the hopes of scheduling events around a stamp coming out in September commemorating the actor Gary Cooper, who was born in Helena. The principal-postal worker team was one of a dozen pairs of school administrators and local business folks that participated in the Helena Education Foundation's annual Trading Places event. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
One Life to Live actor Phil Carey dies at 83 Feb 11, 2009
and Columbia Pictures and starring roles with some of Hollywoods legendary actors, including Gary Cooper in Springfield Rifle, Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts, Peter Fonda in Fighting Mad and Tyrone Power in The Long Gray Line. He also starred with Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak in Pushover. (MSNBC -- Television)
