GARY COOPER Inside His PRIVATE WORLD
Closer US|May 02, 2022
THE THREE-TIME OSCAR WINNER TRIED HARD TO LIVE UP TO THE HEROIC CHARACTERS HE PLAYED ON SCREEN
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GARY COOPER Inside His PRIVATE WORLD

Gary Cooper's daughter, Maria Cooper Janis, realized how fine an actor her father was while watching him film a scene from 1952's High Noon. It wasn't a dramatic speech or shoot-out that impressed her. It was the way Gary enthusiastically lifted up Grace Kelly, who played his bride, as they filmed a romantic scene. “That morning, he had put his back out very painfully and Grace wasn't petite," Maria tells Closer. “Sweat broke out on his upper lip from the pain, but he looked like the happy groom. I thought, “That's a good actor.””

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