Grab Your Edition The Last Hero: A Biography Of Gary Cooper Depicted By Larry Swindell Disseminated As Volume

I find it interesting "Yup" Did I learn things I didn't know about the actor "Yup, " Did it make me change my opinions of his films "Nope, " What it did do was show me the confused business that was Hollywood in it's Golden Age, Those artists were both gypsies and slaves at times and the movie moguls their masters, A lot of the legend and rumors in the book like all others have to be taken with "a grain of salt" because that is standard for this type of biography.

Cooper was born in Montana and was the son of a ranch owner and he himself a ranch hand early in his life, His career began as a rider in "Poverty Row" Westerns, taking a fall for,. He was much deeper than the "aw shucks" posture he appeared to have, Hunter, art lover, friend of Hemingway, world traveler, family man and lover of cars and women, Most importantly, to him especially, was the respect of the motion picture community, In the words of Joel McCrea, another favorite Cowboy of mine, "Gary Cooper was the best there ever was, " Not quite as well written as the newer biography on Cooper by Jeffrey Meyers, but still an interesting read, Especially about Cooper's relationship with Patricia Neal, If I ingested the necessary amount of salt to be taken with this biography, I would be deeply worried for the health of my heart, So many tropes to be trotted out inpages,

We have the stuff about Clara Bow having been with every man between the ages ofandauthors never get tired of that, do they Maybe if the readers did, they'd stop writing it.
Oh, and did you know that Gary Cooper might have been gay Oh yes, the "evidence" is that he had a gay friend who stayed in his home on occasion.
By that logic, my vacation in the Florida Keys makes me a sand castle, For the record, I'd love Gary Cooper no matter his sexuality, but if you're going to make a claim, find something more credible to hang it on than "he had a gay friend.
" That's like the author who posited that Claudette Colbert was a lesbian because she wore trousers to a party once,

It's fairly well known that Gary Cooper was a busy boy between takes, having enjoyed the intimate company of everyone from Clara Bow and Lupe Velez when he was a whippersnapper to Grace Kelly when he was an elder statesman.
Time is spent on his relatively lengthy involvement with Patricia Neal, who wrote in her own book about him waiting outside while she endured a backstreet abortion not mentioned here.
Gary Cooper's marriage was a complex arrangement, obviously, but I still don't quite understand what was going on there, and reading this book didn't help the tiniest bit.


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muddying the waters is that this came out in, Mrs. Cooper who remarried after Gary's passing was still around, as was Patricia Neal and a host of other people mentioned, I'm left scratching my head as to how Swindell felt safe saying some things, but not others, Or perhaps whatever research he did another question didn't reveal the stories that we have heard in the interveningyears since this came out,

I'm still waiting for the definitive biography of Gary Cooper this isn't it, This isn't as bad as the pile of dreck I'd read previously, but that bar was so low as to be subterranean, Oh well, I'll keep my eyes open and hope the next one is better,

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