Mark Harrison, were you there? Why are you certain of your claims? Either way, the pregnancy did not break them up. Patricia Neal has previously stated how she "deeply loved Cooper", these are her own words I quote, unlike you. In any event, the pregnancy and how the couple involved (meaning not you) dealt with it is and was their own business. Are you without sin? Then don't throw stones. MYOB.
Genuine applause for a genuine star- a legend. The whispers in the audience say it all. Sad to say Mr Cooper was gone soon after, about a year and a half in fact. He went out with class.
Even when he knew he was dying, he still made movies, went on vacations, hosted parties, and played golf. He had exquisite taste in clothes and cars. His friends were Hemingway, Picasso, Ferrari, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, The Pope! He was fabulously wealthy. He was a suoerstar.
@@MarkHarrison733 ....According to some questionable reports, and, really, who gives a fuck if he might have favoured a cock as a change from all his many sexual dalliances with women? Big deal.
Gary is my favorite. Loved him in Pride of the Yankees. He made me cry in that one. I loved him in Sgt. York, and he was amazing in High Noon. God rest him
Ithink it's a mark of a great actor that they can convey so much without needing to open speak. Cooper was one. I wish he'd lived his allotted span and let us more work instead of dying early.
The respect everyone has for each other is wonderful. The so called movie stars of today could learn a lot from these pple. Love watching this program.
Guys like Cooper, Stewart, Stanwyck, Peck, etc were legends. "Today's" Hollyweird smellebrities are self important geeks who don't even know what gender they are.
There wasn't much media back then. More media exposure today. Don't but this, they were better back. More hidden back then, like the church. Not aimed personally at you BTW.
@Anna Kaminski 🌿 Yes, Anna they were polite and friendly across the board...you might even say blindly so. All except for Tony Perkins who asked the WHALER if he worked to make life better for the animals. Tony would be the one who'd be tuned in to looking at whaling as a heinous business first. I'm sure the rest of the stars became aware soon after. It was disgusting to see the self-satisfied grin on the "captain's" face. So happy most of us have aligned with the whales and other creatures. 🐳🐬🦈💜
@@williamlawlor7445 🌿 Your comment explains perfectly why the WHALING "CAPTAIN" was greeted with blind hospitality. Most of the world's people were not in sync with or as understanding of animals as we are now. Tony Perkins touched on awareness with his question about whether or not the occupation was geared at helping the animals involved. I hope it wasn't long before someone wiped that self-satisfied grin off the guest's face. 🐳🦈🐬💜
Note how warmly Coop greats the panelists, including stopping to shake Anthony Perkins' hand with both his hands. (Coop played Jess Birdwell in Friendly Persuasion from 1956 and Tony played his son, Josh.)
"Friendly Persuasion" was such a great family film, the likes of which we don't see today. And it's filled with such humour: the forbidden (to Quakers, at least in the movie) organ in the attic, the (forbidden/frowned-upon) horse and buggy races to church on Sundays, and the feud between the younger son and the mother's (the beautiful Dorothy McGuire) pet goose. Seeing the movie at age 11, I thought Anthony Perkins was the cat's meow. Michael Wilson adapted the screenplay from the novel (though some amendments were later made), but his name wasn't allowed to be included on the Academy Awards ballot because he was blacklisted for rightly refusing to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
The first time I saw Mr Cooper was High Noon. I was only 12. And most of the story went over my head But over the years I have seen all his work. In a word outstanding Well acted and written. He was not just a cowboy
One movie that followed the novel very closely was To Kill a Mockingbird. One of my favorite movies. If I see it is to be shown on Turner Classic Movies or any other venue I am sure to make time to see it.
My heart goes out here because Gary Cooper at this point in time soon took ill and ended up leaving this world far too soon. Class act one of the true greats a real movie star.
Mr. Cooper was my idol as a young lad watching his heroics on the silver screen. He NEVER let me down, and I learned a great deal by just observing him on screen. A young lad never had a better example to follow than this exemplary human being.
Both the ladies look so elegant this evening. I just love Arlene's gown & gloves, I would love to have a place to go that I could wear that! Her hair is amazing too!!! ❤️
Not only had the Mystery Guest and the Guest Panelist starred together in a movie, both of them had already portrayed well-known Major League Baseball players who became known for their medical situation in addition to their talent on the field.
I agree. She does look lovely and I think she’s a little more “sassy” tonight! I read recently (I think Wikipedia) that she was mugged some time in the 80’s and the theif stole her heart pendant necklace the she wears frequently on the show. 😞
Mr. Cooper would die from Cancer a year and a half after this show. I believe I read somewhere that he weighed 85 pounds when he passed away. He looked pretty strong here put Cancer has a way of sneaking up on you and progressing very fast, a very inhuman disease to say the least......may he rest in peace. I am a Cancer survivor
It's amazing how well Gary Cooper looks, considering that within 6 months, he was operated on for cancer and, ultimately, died in May of 1961. Great actor. Very sad.
figracula1 If you look carefully at how he gets up and moves rather slightly hunched over, to me, he looked like he was in some discomfort, poor man. This was over 60 years ago.
@@marjoriemargel1567 He was a horseman, and had an ancient riding injury from his pre-Hollywood days, but I saw he had trouble sitting down, the way he eased into his chair
Gary Cooper will always be at the top of my list...He could say so much w/o even saying a word... That's how brilliant he was, how adeptly he could become, express his character...Amazing... TY, Coop, for leaving us your incredible work! 💞🎬📽🎬💞
I love what Dorothy & Arlene are wearing tonight, so classy💜💜💜 Anthony Perkins was the perfect guy for Norman Bates in Psycho with those dark dark eyes!!
Cooper was someone who recognized that he had been blessed and worked hard to live up to his good fortune. That recognition is seen in his humility. That seems lacking in this time. Knowing that one does not know. We seem confident in our ignorance. Too bad for us.
Gary Cooper, one if the greatest stars of all time. He had his faults, but he admitted to it and tried to do right by his family for what he did. Can't help but admire him for it. He was the strong, silent man that I LOVE!!!! He reminded me of my Grandpa in that sense. RIP Gary🙏😪
Jimmy Stewart. And James Cagney, who was all too often typecast as a gangster, but who also did song and dance, biographies and comedies. (Orson Wells and George C. Scott both said that Cagney was one of the, if not THE, best actor they ever saw).
One of the things I love about this show aside from the class and elegance is that it often helped people realize women could do real jobs that contribute to their community. It also highlighted the variety of jobs it takes to make a community function and showed all of them respect, from the garbage collector to the mayor.
@@Fred-mp1vf Absolutely! Being a good mother takes so much intelligence and effort. But at the time, while motherhood was respected, womanhood wasn't. Women weren't even allowed to open a bank account without their husband or father's permission. And unfortunately, even women who start adult life wanting the traditional home don't get it. Either she never gets married or she does and has kids and then is single again, either through death or divorce and then has to provide for herself and her children. Shows like this one showed them and the world that they could do it.
They don't make movie stars like that anymore. Cooper was one of a kind. And he had less than two years to live. Take life seriously folks. We only get one
KEN RETHERFORD In seven words you managed to make two errors, which may be a record. Her husband's name was Gabel and he was smart. You also fail to see what is obvious to most of us: they really loved each other deeply. If you're focused on superficial matters, you may think his looks wouldn't have attracted her, and it's true that he didn't age as well as she did (who did?). But look up a photo from when he played Danton in the 1930s; that may give you a hint too.
KEN RETHERFORD your silly remark was made two years ago yet is so asinine one would think you would have taken it down by now. To judge a good intelligent talented man so harshly without knowing anything about him is ridiculous. All you had to do was Google his name.
Martin Gabel was a charming and very sophisticated gentleman who was quite handsome in his younger years, especially when married Arlene Francis in 1946. His voice had rich and articulate tones which would have made him perfect for Shakespearean drama. He is one of my favorite panelists on this fantastic show.
Amazing and most loved Gary Cooper guests on this classic episode. What cracked me up was when Mr. Cooper constantly kept saying, "And...Um" during his chat with John Daly and the panelists. 🤩
I saw Tony Perkins standing in front of me in a grocery line in Gelsons, it was a few years before he passed around 1986. I hardly recognized him at first.
Right! That one was aggravating to watch, because it was blatant misdirection that wasted time. I would like to have seen how differently it would have gone if it was properly described as a service. I think the questioning would have been more interesting. The whaler guy was creepy, I agree... UGH
garbage collection is a service that removes a product. the question was, is there a product involved, which there is. the panel chose to run with the product.
@@rosemma34 - people make a lot of money selling waste as a product. Vegetable oil from fryalators goes into animal feed. Sawdust from furniture manufacture goes into wood stove blocks. Metal shavings from manufacturers gets melted down and sold for metal manufacturing. Many times the garbage collector has to pay someone to take his garbage. Some places burn garbage to make electricity. If you sell it and someone buys it, it is a product.
The-Our-Arlene-Sophisticated-Woman-of-the-World Department: the way Arlene Francis purrs “I have a delicious feeling all over” and the way she looks at and smiles at Gary Cooper suggests she hopes she can take him out for a drink afterward and get lucky.
My father met Gary Cooper in 1948, when my dad worked for his brother in law in Southern Utah at his gas/service station. Mr. Cooper stopped to get gas, gave my dad his autograph, which I still have.
Six months later during April 1960, Gary Cooper was seen presenting the award for best picture at The 32nd Annual Academy Awards, which would turn out to be the very last time he appeared on camera on television. He then spent the rest of 1960 in London, England, filming and completing what would turn out to be the last picture he starred in: A British/American picture, which he starred with Deborah Kerr, Hermione Gingold, and Peter Cushing in called "The Naked Edge". In May of 1961, Gary Cooper died.
There was a morbid foreshadowing in Cooper's Academy Award appearance. He awarded the best film Oscar to "Ben Hur" to the widow of the late producer Sam Zimbalist, one of two posthumous awards given to the late staff members of "Ben Hur"
Sam, You are the ONLY commenter, that I've seen, that has said anything about the whale captain It sickens me actually that no body cares or is informed about those beautiful, intelligent mammals that humans hunted then and killed for "the almighty buck"
This program is a snapshot from a different time. The ladies, in regal evening gowns, bejeweled, and wearing elegant gloves, who glide onto stage knowing full well that they are dazzling to look at. The gentlemen, in tuxedos and bowties, looking handsome, confident and completely at ease. And this is a half-hour panel show. My, my, how times have changed.
Wow, Mr. Cerf was more than a publisher, he was a bookworm. He must've had a library in his head. They came to Cordura was a big movie in 1959 and he already read and published it. I don't even think the term nerd would be one to describe his love of books. Very interesting.
When the chief of the police in Rome was a guest using an interpreter, it was clear that John knew enough Italian to understand much of the conversation and to clarify some difficult points in the translation. He seemed to be on top of any French and Spanish phrases used by mystery guests pretending not to be native English speakers, too, though those were usually well-known idioms, so not a very good test of how far his fluency went.
The thing is, is that the people on the panel knew EVERYTHING that was going on in NYC. Who was in town, what films were playing or premiering, what plays were ongoing, etc..
gary cooper when young....was considered one of the most attractive men to ever appear in film....yet he preferred working on cars than making movies.....in fact...people were amazed that during a scene it appeared as if cooper was doing nothing at all..but once you watched the film....he became amazing.....Orson Wells describes all this best in his interviews... one last point...gary cooper was the only actor Alvin York would allow to portray him...and that is why Sergeant York was made
Anthony Perkins. Oh my yes. Early luscious period. “On the Beach” was Stanley Kramer’s drama about the end of the world in Australia. Not exactly light entertainment with laughs. The WML production staff liked Tony a lot - he appeared often enough either as a panelist or a mystery guest. He was on the panel that memorable night that Arlene wore an eye patch, and a female Arkansas justice of the peace came as a contestant. And he was on the panel that memorable night of three guest panelists and Dorothy Kilgallen as mystery guest.
Tony Perkins was just gorgeous-- and a very talented actor who got typecast, unfortunately, as Norman Bates-types. He was absolutely perfect in Orson Welles's "The Trial" as Joseph K, bringing a whole extra dimension to the role by virtue of the discomfort you sense in his character's scenes with beautiful women. A vastly underrated actor, he's remembered today really only for "Psycho", but he had a much wider range of character types he could play.
Jackie Phillips Well, Anthony Perkins tried to escape typecasting by making movies in France for a number of years before coming back. Unfortunately, one of his first movies he made upon rearrival in America involved him playing a convicted arsonist who also was a compulsive liar, and even though the role had very little similarities for Norman Bates, it seemed to cement his typecast. He continued trying to dodge the typecast for a number of years, but as the years progressed there was very little he could do but embrace his typecasting in order to continue making movies. He stated that his typecasting really frustrated him, but he never harbored any negative feelings towards Psycho and enjoyed playing Norman Bates. So no, it was not necessarily a willing choice, but when you're an actor that has to make money someway, the only thing he COULD do is take up the roles offered to him, all of which were very Norman Bates-ish. However, he did have a number of successful roles on Broadway, so he frequented the stage as well, which gave him a break from it. However, in the late 80s he suffered from AIDS and once again, there was very little he could do but play Norman Bates roles over and over to support his family somehow.
Wow the audience whispering and talking when he walks in.... geniuinely stunned. He would have been one of the biggest stars on this show, along with Errol Flynn and James Stewart I guess.
One thing that's changed over the years is an attitude towards animal hunters. I don't think whaling captains would be as accepted today as much as they were in the Fifties. Anthony Perkins did indicate the difference between harming animals and helping them, but he still gladly shook the captain's hand.
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