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Article: GARY COOPER COMES BACK INTO FOCUS IN BIOGRAPHY.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

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August 31, 1998
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Byline: Robert Sklar Washington Post Writers Group

Gary Cooper: An American Hero

By Jeffrey Meyers. Morrow. 379 pp. $26.

My father-in-law remembered for nearly 70 years the night he saw Gary Cooper dancing with his inamorata Lupe Velez at the Ambassador Hotel's Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. Leonardo DiCaprio's current appeal doesn't begin to match the extraordinary impact Cooper's male beauty had when he broke into movies in the late 1920s. Fortunately, we have Morocco (1930) on video to preserve Cooper's youthful screen image, portraying Marlene Dietrich's lover, a foolhardy foreign legionnaire with a rose behind his ear, at once virile and ...

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