Vanities

FLASHBACK September 1934

September 1984
Vanities
FLASHBACK September 1934
September 1984

FLASHBACK September 1934

Gary Cooper

Not a Bruce Weber snap of a model boy in the latest Versace casualwear, but a Hoyningen-Huene portrait of Gary Cooper (1901-61) on the lot of Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Cooper was at the six-foot-three-inch peak of his azure-eyed appeal. Though Carole Lombard found him “effeminate.” And Anita Loos found him “dull.” But then, perhaps speech was not his language. As F. Scott Fitzgerald explained, “Gary Cooper’s appeal is just that he can’t act. But they think from his unwilling expression—I bet when he takes those silly clothes off he’d be twice as exciting as those silly actors. ”