Found insideMysterious disappearance of a valuable gem forces three English brothers to enlist in the North African Foreign Legion. He analyzes the dramatic organization of the film with close reference to the original short story and Carl Foreman's script, and concludes with an invaluable overview of the long history of critical debates, focusing on questions of social ... The Wilder Shores of Love would have made colourful and entrancing films.” CARSON McCULLERS — “The Wilder Shores of Love is a book of such radiance and strength.” FREYA STARK — “A book as excellent as its title.” WASHINGTON ... His life journey from Swampscott, Massachusetts, to Hollywood, to a twelve thousand-acre cattle ranch in Joseph, Oregon, is one of the great American stories. American Legends: The Life of Charles Bronson examines the life and career of the iconic actor. Combines compilations of facts and figures about the silver screen with quizzes and brainteasers to test the film buff's knowledge of movie plots and characters, actors and actresses, directors, award-winning films, and Oscar nominees and ... Found inside – Page 81His job was to say , " Oh , hello , O'Hara " to Gary Cooper , who was playing a character of that name . This always caused confusion : Cooper would muff his line and then protest , " That's wrong . He can't call me O'Hara . His name's O'Hara . Found insideGary Cooper White, criminal drifter, who brutally murders Theresa Dunn because she won't let him stay the night, in Judith Rossner's Looking for Mr. Goodbar ... Found inside – Page 7979 Gary Cooper baffled Carroll: “He sits there humped in a chair while ... and economy with which he sketches the Gary Cooper character at the start ... Found inside – Page xiiOn Character Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age David Lazar ... Gary Cooper brought a reasonably stable set of characteristics to his roles, which, ... Found insideAn Inquiry Into National Character Michael Gellert ... One may think of Gary Cooper's character in “Meet John Doe,” Robert De Niro's character in ... Found inside – Page 249Whatever he did, Gary Cooper was the truth' (Anon., 2005: 50). ... his star persona would appear to resonate with Andrea's own reticent character. Found inside – Page 104is a lady whose character is not quite clearly defined. ... Gary Cooper said, “The action, the characters, the romance, the background—everything is ... American Legends: The Life of Charles Bronson examines the life and career of the iconic actor. Here is a tour of his favorites from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Pulp Fiction, and a master class in what makes a film soar or flop. Found inside – Page 50At least one of the archetypes that Moran draws on — Gary Cooper — was clearly prominent in ... The personality of Gary Cooper's character as the lawman in ... Crime dramas and Westerns have produced many villains but few have been as effective and memorable as Dan Duryea. Found inside – Page 151... which endows the main character of the barrister with a more humane ... reminding us of the meeting between Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert in ... Found inside – Page 107Carl Foreman was soon forced to leave America to find work, but Gary Cooper ... (B movie players) – but Cooper's character undergoes a false court-martial: ... Uses interviews with Cooper's closest friends--Ingrid Bergman, Frank Capra, Deborah Kerr, Charlton Heston, Patricia Neal, and others--to show that his life was as passionate offscreen as he was taciturn on it Found inside – Page 114... starring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich. It revisits certain of the Morocco characters a generation later, with Lily, the Marlene Dietrich character, ... Found inside – Page 156Thus, notions created by viewers while watching Will Kane's on-screen acts were always related to the person of Gary Cooper. This permeation of characters ... As Hollywood entered the sound era, it was rightly determined that the same public fascinated by the novelty of the talkie would be dazzled by the spectacle of a song and dance film. Gary Cooper: An Enduring Style is the first ever monograph focused on the timeless fashion and allure of this leading man who was a fashion inspiration to his Hollywood peers, clothing designers then and now, and generations of stylish men ... Personal letters of Samuel Goldwyn's personal secretary provides an inside look at life as a young professional in 1920's Los Angeles. Found insideSlotkin makes the point that the film's lead characters, played by Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, are a pair of cynical mercenaries who eventually sell ... Found inside – Page 197As far as character is concerned, Cawelti argues that stereotype ... he cites Sherlock Holmes, and the characters played in westerns by Gary Cooper. The book covers topics like: Origins of the project (original novel, previous adaptations,...) Differences between the novel and the movie Ernst Lubitsch's influence on the movie Relationship with other Billy Wilder's and Audrey Hepburn's ... Found inside – Page 69And from at hand for the right story and the then on he jokingly calls Cooper right performer . He counted on " Mother McGregor . Cooper to unify his efforts and not a Cooper characters were often seam was visible when Hathaway mistrustful of ... Found inside – Page 122I adored both of these leading male characters. In his early career, Gary Cooper was fine-featured and sensitive looking, before too much smoking and too ... Dragged into the political turmoil of a presidential election year, fourteen-year-old Cooper Jewett, who runs a New Hampshire dairy farm since his grandfather's death, stands up for himself and makes it clear whose first boy he really is. High Midnight shows once again how Edgar Award winner Stuart M. Kaminsky “has a delightfully original mind enriching—rather than just borrowing from—an old literary form” (Los Angeles Times). Found insideDiscusses nineteen Bond movies, from "Dr. No" to "The World Is Not Enough," including behind-the-scenes stories, a tribute to Ian Fleming, and a discussion about the movies' influence on popular culture. Found inside – Page 268The contrast in their characters continued on screen as well as off, and Lancaster was forced to concede the superiority of Cooper's laidback style. A photographic memoir charts Gary Cooper's off-screen life from his boyhood in Montana, to his family life in Hollywood, to his relationships with Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and Jimmy Stewart, among many others. The book chronicles the sophisticated, glamorous Cooper's tempestuous relationships with Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly and Patricia Neal (to name but a few). In this book ... Frankel tells the story of the making of a great American Western, exploring how Carl Foreman's concept of High Noon evolved from idea to first draft to final script, taking on allegorical weight"--Amazon.com. But it's not all just tawdry gossip in the pages of this book. The stories are all contextualized within the boundaries of film, cultural, political, and gender history, making for a read that will inform as it entertains. Found insideHere, historian Larry Morris celebrates the story of that unforgettable friendship. He referred, not so affectionately, to many of his early appearances as "Smiling Jim" roles, but was able to make his mark in works such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Picnic, Sunset Boulevard, and Stalag 17, which would eventually find ... Found inside... of a story and its characters, that their whole is rarely as good as the parts, and the characters of their players—Gary Cooper or Margaret Sullavan, ... Found insideIt is also interesting to see how the various Cooper characters in all the ... some seventy years plus after the majority of Gary Cooper movies were made. Discover the fascinating story of the man and the movies in a richly researched work. 358 pages. Illustrated Here, now, in THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic by Richard Sandomir, New York Times sports columnist, is, for the first time, the full story behind the pioneering, seminal movie. Investigating subjects of nature, ethics, identity, gender, environmentalism, and animal rights, the essays draw from a wide range of westerns including the recent popular and critical successes Unforgiven (1992), All the Pretty Horses ... References to western movies scattered over some 250 works by more than 130 authors constitute the subject matter of this book, arranged in an encyclopedic format. Reveals the complex man behind the famous movie actor, exploring among other things Cooper's long friendship with Ernest Hemingway and his involvement with the House Un-American Activities Committee. Found inside – Page 116The montage sequences are like the sudden joyous outbursts which Walter Brennan and Gary Cooper spit out on their “ doohickies . ... Actors and Characters Capra is not a great dictator of actors , but he is peerless in his use of stars . Story of the man and the movies in a richly researched work and the movies a! 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