Friendly Persuasion presented an unusual side of The Civil War to moviegoers in 1956. Travel back to the days of old and check out guest author Rick29’s behind-the-scenes spin on two totally different period films.
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Gary Cooper: Lou Gehrig vs. Will Kane
In this weeks Character Witness Will Kane Vs. Lou Gehrig, two classic and memorable Gary Cooper. We would like to know what performance is the most memorable, iconic, or simply your favorite. Let us know.
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Guest blogger Marsha Collock wasn’t always a fan of Gary Cooper. In this article, she discusses the films that helped turn her opinion on the classic actor around.
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Fredric March was already an Oscar winner and a newly minted Hollywood star when he co-starred with Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 adaptation of the Noel Coward play Design for Living. In 1929, when all the major…
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Gary Cooper: The Pride of Hollywood
The personification of American integrity and self-determination, this rangy, laconic Montanan carved his screen legend with a gallery of regular Joes who refused to compromise their codes of conduct in the face of those who’d skew the rules. Frank James…
Read more →Design for Living (1933): Movie review
In Design for Living, Tom Chambers (Fredric March) and George Curtis (Gary Cooper) are a couple of artistic best friends. Tom is a playwright and George is a painter. They may not be rich, but they’re happy living together in…
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