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I had met him casually at several parties, but I didn't really know' Coop when we started work last year on 'Meet John Doe,' which was my first picture with him. All that first day on the set he sat around as if he were in a dream. During the rehearsals I noticed that he wasn't sure of his lines, he'd sort of fumble around and expect me to come to his rescue. 'There is a guy,' I said to myself on the way home that night, 'who doesn't care. He's famous. And he's got plenty of money. He just doesn't give a darn.' That shows how dumb I am. "Next morning I found out about Gary Cooper. All the time during those rehearsals when he appeared so lazy and disinterested he was figuring out bits of business — something with a string, or a straw, or maybe just a match. He never lets you know what this bit of business is going to be at rehearsals — it always comes as a complete surprise when the camera is shooting. As soon as I see Coop pulling out that piece of string I say to myself, 'Uh-huh, there goes my scene.' Coop lazy ? He's just about the smartest guy in town!" Barbara was called on the set to do a close-up, and I leaned against a water cooler and watched. She is one of my most favorite people. Whenever you are around Barbara you have a feeling that a good time is inevitable. Originally, Barbara was supposed to be a strip-teaser in a burlesque show who thoroughly shocks staid Professor Cooper by tossing a fragile bit of wearing apparel in his lap. But the Hays Office (those kill-joys) took a look at the script and said no, emphatically. So now Barbara swings her hips and her verses in Gene Krupa's night-club. (Don't tell the Hays Office but there is a lot of the Stanwyck midriff showing.) While they were re-loading the camera we made for the scant comfort of her dressing room. Barbara, however, is not one to rush away to her dressing room between scenes, like a lot of stars, as if she were afraid someone might speak to her. "I'm always afraid someone mightn't," says Barbara, "so I stick around. "The only fault Coop has on a set," she continued on the subject of Massa Cooper, "is that he is never on time. I overplay the on-time act and consequently am always ahead of time. In fact, some people who have seen me wandering around a studio in the sarly morning have accused me of making a little extra money on the side — by sweeping off the stages. By nine o'clock I'm made up, have my lines down pat, and am ready to start — but no Coop. I used to try to work myself into a good fury, but it was no use. As soon as he wandered on the set, smiled that smile of his, and said, 'Good morning, Barbara,' I just melted. You can't be angry with Coop. It's no use trying. And he really isn't being inconsiderate when he keeps you waiting. He's just being Coop. It's typical of his slow Western manner. He never does anything in a hurry. "I think he is most completely happy when he is out riding with the cowboys up in Idaho — or when he and Rocky are on one of their hunting trips. Now that the duck season is going full tilt they are urging Bob and me to go duck-shooting with them as soon as the picture is finished. Bob is crazy to go. He and Coop speak the same language. But I loathe duck-shooting. Imagine sitting out in one of those blinds all day with ice water oozing all around you and those cold blasts of wind congealing your blood! Doesn't it sound horrible? I couldn't bear to kill anything. "Coop is simply insane over his little daughter, Maria. She is four years old, has Coop's blue eyes, and is as husky as a baby bear. She has a six-months-old Boxer dog, and the two of them together are a riot. Maria is just as crazy about the outdoors SCREENLAND as Coop is, and he takes her hunting and riding with him all the time. By the time she's in her teens she will be the best shot and the best rider in this country. Coop tries not to show how proud he is, but you can't be around him very long that he doesn't pull out those pictures. "Coop has a perfectly swell sense of ; humor. He has been taking an awful lot from me on this picture, I've really beer kidding him terribly. But he's a grand guy, realizes it's all in fun, and never gets sore For instance, he was down on his knees proposing to me for a scene the other day. and when he got up his knees cracked 'Brother,' I said, 'I can't wait to see you play Lou Gehrig and run around those bases.' A lot of actors I know would be pretty annoyed at that. But Coop wasn't He laughed right out loud." It was time for Barbara to rehearse : love scene with Professor Cooper. Whil< she was running over her lines I made mj way across the set to the stage door. Gary I noticed, was awake. Furthermore, hi was chatting with his stand-in, • Slim Tal bot, and tying knots in a rope that Slin had swung over his arm, cowboyfashion "Poor Barbara," I said, "there goes he love scene." If he can steal scenes wit! string, think what he can do with a rope Gary Talks About Barbara Continued from page 23 into the great silences with Gary. He's th kind of a guy who likes to take his time even with words. While he whittled, looked around. Mr. Cooper may be one o our high bracket stars, but there was cer tainly nothing swanky about his dressin. room. On his make-up table there were clutter of papers, the lines for his noscene, a half-munched candy bar, and th body of a plane. Deftly he slipped th wings into a groove, and beamed. "This is for Maria," he said. "I prom ised to bring her home a plane tonigh She's a smart kid, pardon my fatherl pride. She's only four, but she knows mor about planes than I do. I think these wing are too large, don't you?" More whittling "Here's your tea, Mr. Cooper," said on of the boys on the set, placing a steamin cup in Gary's hand. I glanced out the doo and saw that the entire "Ball of Fire" com pany had knocked off for four o'clock te: "You take this," Gary insisted rather pa thetically. "I don't like tea. I only drink because I'm bored." I told him that I coul do without tea, but that I could certainl do with a little more Stanwyck. "Sure, that's easy." Gary took two sips 1 tea, made a face, and pushed it aside i disgust. "Barbara is the best-liked perso I've ever played in pictures with. He thoughtfulness, believe me, is strictly 0 the level. She's not the kind who makes flash. You know, and I know, a lot o| actresses who do thoughtful things — occr sionally. For the effect. Or the publicit; Barbara's thoughtfulness is the twenty-foui hours-a-day, every-day-in-the-year kind. "It would be silly to try to tell all th nice things I've seen Barbara do on th picture. Yesterday, for example, she W£ trying on shoes that had been sent her froi Saks-Fifth Avenue. One of the girls on tr set commented on how beautiful the shoe were, and said that she wouldn't know ho' to wear shoes that cost more than tw ninety-five. This morning I heard shriel coming from Barbara's dressing room, rushed in, expecting at least an ax murde but it was only this girl being presente with a half dozen of Saks' very best shoe "My favorite story about Barbara haj pened on the 'Meet John Doe' set over