Gary Cooper Off Camera

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Summary: I Loved This Book!
Review: I'm 50 years old and only came to appreciating what a remarkable actor Gary Cooper was many years after his death. Maria Cooper Janis, Cooper's daughter, has compiled a fabulous photographic treasure for a Cooper fan such as myself. These photos, revealing a private side to the man which he never permitted while alive, are quite simply wonderful. I know three people whom I will be giving this as a Christmas gift.

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Summary: Really Liked This Book
Review: I'm only 24, but the first video I ever purchased for myself was a Gary Cooper film, PRIDE OF THE YANKEES. I was 12. I still have the video. I'm not that familiar with a lot of Cooper's films, but he is always cool how he takes bad stuff from villains for most of the film and then in the last 10 minutes, he really gets back. Now that I've seen this book and all the photos and the essays from his daughter, I'll start renting as many Cooper films as I can. His daughter really loved him, you can tell. That is amazing in itself, since I have grown up reading and hearing from the children of celebrities how awful their parents were.

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Summary: Gary Cooper Off Camera
Review: In a day and age when the children of "the stars" write the most deplorable books about their parents, this book is a wonderfully tender tribute to a true hero. Absolutely refreshing.

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Summary: Gary Cooper Off Camera
Review: In a day and age when the children of "the stars" write the most deplorable books about their parents, this book is a wonderfully tender tribute to a true hero. Absolutely refreshing.

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Summary: Gary Cooper Off Camera
Review: In a day and age when the children of "the stars" write the most deplorable books about their parents, this book is a wonderfully tender tribute to a true hero. Absolutely refreshing.

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Summary: Wonderful Memoir
Review: Maria Cooper Janis has put together a wonderful photographic memoir of her father, the celebrated actor Gary Cooper. Some of these photographs are extraordinary. The life this man led and the people whom he knew! They're all here, from fellow actors like Jimmy Stewart to writer Ernest Hemingway to Picasso to Queen Elizabeth to a very youthful John F. Kennedy, while still in the Navy. I'll treasure this, not simply for the photos. Ms. Janis has also written a series of essays to accompany the various chapters, essays which are finally nothing less then a wonderful extended love letter to her father. A beautiful book.

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Summary: A Daughter's Truly Loving Tribute
Review: Maria Cooper Janis's memoir is a truly loving tribute to her famous father, the actor Gary Cooper. Filled with photos and wonderful stories of growing up with a celebrity father during Hollywood's so-called Golden Age, Ms. Janis's picture of her father is an interesting antidote to more recent biographies of Gary Cooper. These bios accent Mr. Cooper's lifelong womanizing, before and during his marriage. This book adds a welcome balance to this picture. Cooper was clearly a more complex man than recent bios would indicate. And he was just as clearly a loving, deeply caring father. A very real family man! Thanks, Ms. Janis, for this beautiful book.

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Summary: Remarkable Father, Remarkable Daughter
Review: Maria Cooper Janis's photographic tribute to her legendary father, Gary Cooper, is an endearing memoir. Filled with a daughter's open love and admiration, it has hundreds of photographs never seen before of the man behind the celebrity. Even those too young to be terribly familiar with Cooper, will enjoy this trip down memory lane. Hemingway, Picasso, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Stewart, scads more, they are all here. And in Ms. Janis's loving words and beautifully laid out photos, they are all again alive.

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Summary: An Endearing Photographic Memoir
Review: Maria Cooper Janis's photographic tribute to her legendary father, Gary Cooper, is an endearing memoir. Filled with a daughter's open love and admiration, it has hundreds of photographs never seen before of the man behind the celebrity. Even those too young to be terribly familiar with Cooper, will enjoy this trip down memory lane. Hemingway, Picasso, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Stewart, scads more, they are all here. And in Ms. Janis's loving words and beautifully laid out photos, they are all again alive.

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Summary: Remarkable Father, Remarkable Daughter
Review: Maria Cooper Janis's photographic valentine to her remarkable father, enduring screen icon Gary Cooper, does more than reveal the private family man behind the celebrity image. For it also reveals what a remarkable woman is his daughter, Maria Cooper Janis. Cooper and wife Rocky surely did something right as parents to have produced this warm and intelligent woman. She has put together a delightful photographic memoir. And this is being written by someone who usually steers miles from memoirs by the offspring of celebrities.