Post by *~Mrs. Cooper ~* on Oct 9, 2006 18:16:06 GMT -5
"Every woman who knew him fell in love with Gary."
-- Ingrid Bergman
Some people are just nice guys, and nothing --not even Hollywood -- can change it. Coop just likes people. It's as simple as that.
-- Richard Arlen
"Gary was a very quiet boy, very much so. He was gentle more than anything"
--Relative
"He's hung like a horse and he can go all night"
-- Clara Bow
"I was the only one who scarred him for life."
-- Lupe Valez
After 5 years of almost total silence, he suddenly exclaimed:
"I imagine it would be wonderful to go to bed with you."
-- Fay Wray
"Cooper is a fine man, as honest and straight and friendly and unspoiled as he looks"
-- Ernest Hemingway
"He was the most gorgeously attractive man - bright too - though some people didn't think so."
-- Patricia Neal
"He was the tall, thin type of American, with pale blue eyes of an idealistic, disappointed expression"
-- Lorraine Chanel
"Basically...he was catnip to the ladies"
-- Richard Widmark
"I liked Gary very much, but you know...He was a doll, he really was, a very nice guy...Gary was very nice, but the women were so crazy about him. More than any other man I knew. I think what attracted people was he had a great shyness, he kept pulling back, and it intrigued people. He really was a very quiet, quiet guy."
-- Evelyn Brent
"Coop never fought, he never got mad, he never told anybody off that I know of. Everybody that worked with him liked him."
-- Joel McCrea
"He was a poet of the real. He knew all about cows, bulls, cars, and ocean tides. He had the enthusiasm of a boy. He could always tell you his first vivid impression of a thing. He had an old-fashioned politeness, but he said nothing casually."
--- Poet Clifford Odetts
"I'm not good enough for him, I know that. But I tried to make him happy. I did make him happy. I would have done anything in the world for him. His mother--I hope she never cries the tears that I have cried. I hope she never knows the suffering I have known. I don't hate her, that much. She said I wasn't good enough for Gary. She told him that when I was in New York, I was seeing other men. She told him that I wasn't faithful to him. He believed what she told him."
--- Actress Lupe Velez
"He had the soul of a boy--a pure, simple, nice, warm boys' soul... He was the incarnation of the honorable American."
--- Stockholm, Sweden newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
"Perhaps with him there is ended a certain America: that of the frontier and of innocence which had or was believed to have an exact sense of the dividing line between good and evil."
--- Rome newspaper Corriere Della Sera
"He was the symbol of trust, confidence and protection. He is dead now. What a miracle that he existed."
--- Hamburg newspaper Die Welt
"He constantly underplays his roles, with the result that you frequently feel that he is injuring the production, and yet he is so attractive a player and, in his later emotional scenes, so enormously real and honest, that you realize in the end how helpful he has been."
--- New York Herald reviewer Richard Watts, Jr., on Seven Days Leave (1930)
-- Ingrid Bergman
Some people are just nice guys, and nothing --not even Hollywood -- can change it. Coop just likes people. It's as simple as that.
-- Richard Arlen
"Gary was a very quiet boy, very much so. He was gentle more than anything"
--Relative
"He's hung like a horse and he can go all night"
-- Clara Bow
"I was the only one who scarred him for life."
-- Lupe Valez
After 5 years of almost total silence, he suddenly exclaimed:
"I imagine it would be wonderful to go to bed with you."
-- Fay Wray
"Cooper is a fine man, as honest and straight and friendly and unspoiled as he looks"
-- Ernest Hemingway
"He was the most gorgeously attractive man - bright too - though some people didn't think so."
-- Patricia Neal
"He was the tall, thin type of American, with pale blue eyes of an idealistic, disappointed expression"
-- Lorraine Chanel
"Basically...he was catnip to the ladies"
-- Richard Widmark
"I liked Gary very much, but you know...He was a doll, he really was, a very nice guy...Gary was very nice, but the women were so crazy about him. More than any other man I knew. I think what attracted people was he had a great shyness, he kept pulling back, and it intrigued people. He really was a very quiet, quiet guy."
-- Evelyn Brent
"Coop never fought, he never got mad, he never told anybody off that I know of. Everybody that worked with him liked him."
-- Joel McCrea
"He was a poet of the real. He knew all about cows, bulls, cars, and ocean tides. He had the enthusiasm of a boy. He could always tell you his first vivid impression of a thing. He had an old-fashioned politeness, but he said nothing casually."
--- Poet Clifford Odetts
"I'm not good enough for him, I know that. But I tried to make him happy. I did make him happy. I would have done anything in the world for him. His mother--I hope she never cries the tears that I have cried. I hope she never knows the suffering I have known. I don't hate her, that much. She said I wasn't good enough for Gary. She told him that when I was in New York, I was seeing other men. She told him that I wasn't faithful to him. He believed what she told him."
--- Actress Lupe Velez
"He had the soul of a boy--a pure, simple, nice, warm boys' soul... He was the incarnation of the honorable American."
--- Stockholm, Sweden newspaper Svenska Dagbladet
"Perhaps with him there is ended a certain America: that of the frontier and of innocence which had or was believed to have an exact sense of the dividing line between good and evil."
--- Rome newspaper Corriere Della Sera
"He was the symbol of trust, confidence and protection. He is dead now. What a miracle that he existed."
--- Hamburg newspaper Die Welt
"He constantly underplays his roles, with the result that you frequently feel that he is injuring the production, and yet he is so attractive a player and, in his later emotional scenes, so enormously real and honest, that you realize in the end how helpful he has been."
--- New York Herald reviewer Richard Watts, Jr., on Seven Days Leave (1930)