Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper was often cast as cowboys, such as in 1940's "The Westerner" and in his Oscar-winning turn in 1952's High Noon," or as stoic, earnest protagonists, such as a World War I hero in 1941's "Sergeant York. " But in real life, he was an erudite sophisticate who had an innate sense of style. The new book "Gary Cooper: Enduring Style" features stunning photographs of Cooper from the mid-1920s through 1960 in everything from fashionable suits to only a zebra-skinned throw. The book includes a foreword by Ralph Lauren, who describes Coop as having an "ideal American look.

A life of 'Resistance' Fred Zinnemann directed 21 features. Here's a look at three that are in the Getty Research Institute retrospective: 'High Noon' Gary Cooper's lagging career was resurrected with this 1952 western-as-political-allegory for which he won the lead actor Oscar. 'The Search' Montgomery Clift was Oscar-nominated for his performance in this harrowing 1948 drama about refugee children in Europe after the war. 'Julia' Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave play lifelong friends who become involved in the anti-fascist movement in Germany in this 1977 drama.

Gary Cooper became "Coop" again on Wednesday night. A documentary that his beautiful daughter, Maria Cooper Janis, was determined to see made premiered before a black-tie, part-industry, part-social crowd at UCLA's Royce Hall as a fund-raiser for the university's Center for the Performing Arts.

"What Price Glory?" Raoul Walsh directed this 1926 service comedy based on Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stalling's play about two rival Marines (Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen) in France. "The Big Parade" King Vidor's seminal and influential 1925 drama set in France starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée. It was the highest-grossing silent film. "Lilac Time" Silent superstar Colleen Moore plays the daughter of a French farmer who falls in love with a handsome young English aviator (Gary Cooper)

Gary Cooper, the blue-eyed cowboy from Helena, Mont., was without question the most beautiful of all the great American actors, the most genuinely modest and one of the most unselfconsciously graceful. Like Henry Fonda, he became the perfect image on whom we could project our feelings of what a right-thinking American should be: a man of few but telling words, of unquestioned integrity and deep-rooted values.

For Gary Cooper, it's a homecoming. The 1968 graduate of Mount Miguel High School has been named head football coach at his alma mater. Cooper replaces nine-year-coach Brian Smith, who resigned to take an administrative post at Granite Hills High School. Cooper has eight years of Grossmont League coaching experience, four years as an assistant at Valhalla from 1975 to 1978 and four years as head coach at Monte Vista from 1979 until 1982.

"Gary Cooper Off Camera" is an inviting photo album-scrapbook-reminiscence that contains irresistible black-and-white photographs of the actor on almost every page. They establish Cooper's apparent love for his family and his relish for the out-of-doors.

Few American screen stars have amassed as expansive a gallery of memorable characters as Gary Cooper. From his doomed pilot in "Wings" to the vulnerable and sweet poet Longfellow Deeds in "Mr.

These acclaimed actors worked multiple times for the director. Barbara Stanwyck The Oscar-nominated legend made five films with Capra, including 1941's "Meet John Doe. " Gary Cooper The star earned his first Oscar nomination for Capra's 1936 "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. " He also starred in "Meet John Doe. " Bing Crosby "Der Bingle" teamed up with Capra for the 1950 comedy "Riding High" and the 1951 romantic farce "Here Comes the Groom. "

I have seen some sick things in my life, but director Bruce Malmuth saying that football player Brian Bosworth has "a little bit of Gary Cooper in him" makes me want to pluck my eyes out (Outtakes, March 11). The only way Boz could have any Gary Cooper in him would be if he ate a bowl of Mr. Cooper's toenails. BILL TURNER Van Nuys

Gary Cooper was often cast as cowboys, such as in 1940's "The Westerner" and in his Oscar-winning turn in 1952's High Noon," or as stoic, earnest protagonists, such as a World War I hero in 1941's "Sergeant York. " But in real life, he was an erudite sophisticate who had an innate sense of style. The new book "Gary Cooper: Enduring Style" features stunning photographs of Cooper from the mid-1920s through 1960 in everything from fashionable suits to only a zebra-skinned throw. The book includes a foreword by Ralph Lauren, who describes Coop as having an "ideal American look.

An hour from the heart of Hollywood in Thousand Oaks, Greenfield Ranch has drawn dozens of film, television and commercial productions over the years. Now the bucolic ranch is playing a starring role in the upcoming 20th Century Fox movie "We Bought a Zoo. " The 450-acre property, where Roy Rogers and Gary Cooper once shot westerns, was transformed over several months into a makeshift zoo that is the centerpiece of the Cameron Crowe-directed film opening Friday. The $50-million production, adapted from a memoir of the same name by former British journalist Benjamin Mee, stars Matt Damon as a widowed father who moves his family from Los Angeles to the countryside to renovate and reopen a dilapidated zoo. The book was set at Dartmoor Zoological Park in England, but the movie takes place in the fictional Rosemoor Wildlife Park, a run-down animal sanctuary in an unnamed rural Southern California town.

These acclaimed actors worked multiple times for the director. Barbara Stanwyck The Oscar-nominated legend made five films with Capra, including 1941's "Meet John Doe. " Gary Cooper The star earned his first Oscar nomination for Capra's 1936 "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. " He also starred in "Meet John Doe. " Bing Crosby "Der Bingle" teamed up with Capra for the 1950 comedy "Riding High" and the 1951 romantic farce "Here Comes the Groom. "

It's not every day an English actor gets the chance to play a cowboy ? just ask Andrew Lincoln. The star of AMC's new original series, "The Walking Dead," says that when he was first offered the role of Rick Grimes, a small-town sheriff who survives the zombie apocalypse and struggles to stay alive in a world decimated by the flesh-eating undead, the opportunity to saddle up and channel his inner Gary Cooper proved too tempting to resist. "I went to work, and I put on cowboy boots, a Stetson, a bag of guns, and got on a horse called Blade and rode into an apocalyptic Atlanta," Lincoln said recently during a telephone interview.

Update: Internet pioneer David Bohnett has sold his Holmby Hills compound to art dealer Larry Gagosian for $15.5 million, according to public records. The technology entrepreneur and philanthropist had put the restored Holmby Hills estate on the market in early December at $18.9 million. Designed by A. Quincy Jones in the mid-'50s for Academy Award-winning actor Gary Cooper, the wood, stone and glass house has a canopied walkway that leads to the entrance.

BEFORE the age of photography, fame was a small club. God and the gods were founding members; there were kings and queens. Education was only for the privileged, and there was no need to know the masses because they had no power. In our cultural history, rumors were the first attempts to generate "legend" or stories among the unknown. A rumor might spread about how, seven leagues from here or there, lived a beautiful woman -- or she might be ugly. Tales, fairy tales, might be told about her.

"What Price Glory?" Raoul Walsh directed this 1926 service comedy based on Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stalling's play about two rival Marines (Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen) in France. "The Big Parade" King Vidor's seminal and influential 1925 drama set in France starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée. It was the highest-grossing silent film. "Lilac Time" Silent superstar Colleen Moore plays the daughter of a French farmer who falls in love with a handsome young English aviator (Gary Cooper)

A life of 'Resistance' Fred Zinnemann directed 21 features. Here's a look at three that are in the Getty Research Institute retrospective: 'High Noon' Gary Cooper's lagging career was resurrected with this 1952 western-as-political-allegory for which he won the lead actor Oscar. 'The Search' Montgomery Clift was Oscar-nominated for his performance in this harrowing 1948 drama about refugee children in Europe after the war. 'Julia' Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave play lifelong friends who become involved in the anti-fascist movement in Germany in this 1977 drama.

Several films starring three legendary actors -- Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando and James Dean -- arrive today on DVD. Universal's "The Gary Cooper Collection" ($27) features five entertaining films that the handsome, lanky superstar made for Paramount during the 1930s. In 1933's ribald comedy "Design for Living," directed by Ernst Lubitsch from the play by Noel Coward, Cooper shows his sophisticated side as a struggling painter living in Paris.

Cal Lutheran made it easy Friday for Chapman to extend its dominance of the teams' rivalry and eliminate the Kingsmen from the NCAA Division III West Regional baseball tournament. The Kingsmen made five errors, and Chapman pitcher Mike Carey struck out nine in 8 1/3 innings to lead Chapman to a 7-4 victory at Hart Park. The Panthers, who opened the tournament Thursday with a 7-5 victory over McMurry (Texas), play at 11 a.m. today against Williamette (Ore.), which beat Cal State Hayward, 12-11.