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GARY COOPER ENDURING STYLE

by G. Bruce Boyer and Maria Cooper Janis

Design by Ruth Ansel

Introduction by Ralph Lauren

“Dressed up like a million-dollar trouper Tryin’ hard to look like Gary Cooper / Super duper” – “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” Irving Berlin (revised lyrics, 1946) In 1946, when Irving Berlin revised the lyrics to his 1928 “Puttin’ on the Ritz” to include those memorable lines, Gary Cooper had been a star for over 15 years, and it would have been hard for most men to look as super duper. He conveyed a straightforwardness and an honest, American handsomeness that seemed to both ignore and rise above the contrived glamour and studied posturing that had characterized so many other film heroes of those early years. No matter what costume he put on, he looked like he owned it. The camera loved him, and so did the box office.

MCHF & WHC HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE 2016

In more than 100 movies over a 36-year career, actor and Helena, Montana-native Gary Cooper portrayed a wide array of characters – cowboy, soldier, and ordinary Joe – all with charm, stateliness, honesty, and courage. Ultimately, Cooper was the iconic Western American hero of 20th century film.

In the 1920’s silent film era, his first jobs were as an extra in Westerns. He appeared in “Wings,” the first movie to receive a Best Picture Oscar. Cooper quickly transitioned from silent film to talkies.

“The Virginian,” a screen adaptation of Owen Wister’s classic 1901 Western novel released in 1929, was Cooper’s first sound film and it helped launch his career. In the 1930s, Cooper was Hollywood’s #1 male box office star. In movies like “The Plainsman,” his roles depicted the common man who persevered through adversity. “Sergeant York” yielded Cooper a 1941 Best Actor Academy Award. In 1952, he won a second Best Actor Oscar for “High Noon.” Many of Cooper’s later films including “The Hanging Tree,”

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