In Sam Wood's romantic melodrama, "Casanova Brown," from Nunnally Johnson's screenplay, based on the play “The Little Accident” by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell (the Oscar-winning actor), Gary Copper plays a timid English teacher named Casanova Brown
Casanova Brown (1944): Sam Wood Melodrama Starring Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright
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General Dies at Dawn, The (1936): Milestone’s Oscar-Nominated Adventure, Starring Gary Cooper
June 30, 2009 by
Lewis Milestone “(All Quiet on the Western Front”) directed with skill this popular political adventure, starring Gary Cooper, which was penned by playwright Clifford Odets (of the famed Group Theater), based on Charles G. Booth’s novel.
Adventures of Marco Polo, The (1938): Archie Mayo’s Biopic, Starring Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbon
December 24, 2008 by
In Archie Mayo's nicely mounted but far from accurate biopic of the noted explorer, Gary Cooper is well cast as the handsome Marco Polo, who is depicted as first and foremost a ladies man. As scripted by Robert Sherwood, the saga takes a light satirical approach, instead of an epic one, to its subject and his adventures.
Ball of Fire (1941): Howard Hawks’ Oscar-Nominated Screwball Comedy, Written by Billy Wilder, Starring Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Oscar Homolka
December 8, 2008 by
In Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder’s smart script, Gary Cooper plays Bertram Potts, a professor who’s engaged in writing a treatise on slang for an encyclopedia.
Farewell to Arms, A (1932): Frank Borzage’s Oscar Winning Version of Hemingway Novel, Starring Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes
February 16, 2008 by
Farewell to Arms, the first Ernest Hemingway book to reach the big screen, ignores the war, and instead builds up the romance between Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.
