I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
Looked like she was a cold dish with a man until you got her pants down, then she'd explode.
The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
They just neglected a large portion of the front row.
To take advantage of the system, the locals are going to have to have the technologies in place. The locals and the states have to find the resources.
Gary appeared in a 1945 magazine advertisement for Calox Tooth Powder.
Gary was friends with Bing Crosby, who named his eldest son after him.
Gary was 6 feet 3 inches tall.
Gary was posthumously inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in 1966.
Gary worked briefly as a photographer's assistant and a curtain salesman before his first film work as a stunt horse rider.
Gary was announced as the United States' top wage earner in 1939, by the U.S. Treasury Department, with income of $482,819.
Gary turned down leading roles in both Gone with the Wind and Stagecoach in 1939.
Gary appeared on the cover of Life Magazine on November 24, 1941.
Gary adapted his screen name after Gary, Indiana, a name he felt reflected the town's "rough and tough" nature, at the suggestion of his agent in 1925.
Gary's hobbies included riding, swimming, hunting, fishing, and taxidermy.
Gary won the Best Actor In A Leading Role Oscar twice, for his roles in Sergeant York (1942) and High Noon (1952). He was nominated in three other movies for the same award, those being Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936), The Pride Of The Yankees (1942), and For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943). He was also given an Honorary Oscar in 1961 for his contributions in acting, a month before his death.
Gary was mentioned in Irving Berlin's famous 1929 song, "Putting On The Ritz," in the following lyrics: "Dressed up like a million dollar trooper...trying hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)."
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