Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors (1936)

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Record Details:

Title:
Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors
Date:
1936
Volume:
Biographies of Paramount Players and Directors 1936-1937
Leaf #:
00053
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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19. GARY COOPER ( Paramount Player) There's a girl back in the State of Iowa who can point to the billboards blazing the picture of Gary Cooper and say: "If it hadn't been for me he probably wouldn't be where he is now." Her name is Doris and she was Gary's first love. Gary rushed her for about two years while they both were students at Grinnell College. They talked of marriage and then Cooper decided to quit school, get a job and prepare for matrimony. Doris, it seems, wanted to go to California. She urged Gary to seek his fortune there, and that led to their first quarrel, for her sweetheart loved the ranches and mountains of Montana. Nevertheless they decided to be married as soon as he could "establish" himself, so Gary left Grinnell in th6 Spring and returned to his birthplace Helena, Montana. There he took a job as a cartoonist on one of the local newspapers. After a little experience in his home town he treWced to California to get a job there doing the same type of work. City editors didn't think so much of his ability and he was reduced to working as a house-to-house canvasser for a portrait photographer at $2 a day and then sold advertising space cn theatre curtains with the sale of drapery as a side line. Finally, this failed end he was down to prrcticslly his la St ten cents. He thought he would try the movie studios. His gicnt frame, he's 6 feet 2^ inches, impressed the casting director at one of the studios and he was given a pr rt as rn extra in a Western. The road to the top in pictures was long end dreary and somewhere along the w*jy he lost Doris. He had stopped writing to her when he was dovn and out, and vhen he did write he le.rned that she had married the son of a local druggist. But Gar> be^rs her no herd feelings. "If it hadn't been for Doris," h6 seys and grins.