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Wants Action!
All the world loves a lover — and nobody tops Gary in the role. But love scenes aren't his big thrill!
By WILLIAM A. ULMAN, JR.
GARY COOPER is one guy who won't talk. I've known him for years, but he still won't talk. He isn't taciturn ; he's just inarticulate. When you ask him something, the answer is just as apt to be a grin and a grunt as a "yes" or "no." For that reason, dozens of writers will tell you he's hard to interview. He isn't, really, but you have to know and understand your "Coop."
I saw him the other day on the set of Desire. He and Marlene Dietrich had been working together for more than a week on a series of interiors — emotional scenes with a minimum of physical action. As we left the set, headed for his dressing-room, Gary was glum. In another man, the glumness would have been irritability, but Cooper is too serene for that. He paused at the door to ask a new assistant director what the next day's call would be.
"Oh, yes," came the reply, "I was going to
ask you about that. We'll be shooting the
\ race sequenced out on Sepulveda Boulevard
very early in the morning. But you won't
have to come out till later. We'll use a
double for the actual racing and. . . ."
That was as far as he got. If he had been
around the studio longer, he would have
known better than to try to let Gary out
of a dangerous scene. Gary dotes on
them and he had been looking forward
to piloting that long nosed, powerful car
at screaming speed ever since he had
first read the script. Mr. Cooper was
nice, but very, very firm in his expla
1 nation about "doubles" getting all the
\ fun out of his pictures after he had
been through a week of studio work.
As we walked on across the lot, he
began chuckling. His pace increased
to a [Continued on page 76]
Gary wouldn't let a double do
the dangerous scenes in Desire.
He wanted the fun, himself!