What do you think of Gary Cooper's looks?

Super duper

Long face; not so pretty in his last 20 years.

He should have stayed as a model because he was hopeless at reading lines.

Didn't he have an enormous penis? Who cares what he looked like*

“He was hung like a horse and could go all night” was a Lupe Velez quote about him.

Very hot.

Kind of a physical ideal.

His era's Brad Pitt.

R2, what part(s) of his face do you think was long? Forehead, nose, space between his nose and mouth, chin, etc.? Just wondering.

He was especially beautiful in the early 30s. He smoked too much, which aged him prematurely and eventually killed him.

In "Morocco."

R7 The space between his nose and mouth. The philtrum.

R8 He was creepily, spellbindingly gorgeous in your picture.

Fine ass mo-fo!!!!

I need him in me, quite deeply!

Gary Cooper had a nude bathing scene in pre code film Wolf Song (1929), it's on youtube now

Was he a homophobe?

Is R12 a 21st century SJW?

R13, what does SJW mean?

Not bad, but not as hot as Gene Kelly.

Gene Kelly didn't show off his groin and sacrum. That almost-nude clip at R11 tells us that Coop was being commodified as a sex object.

R16 maybe but Cooper didn't have the body, even years later when he was in his prime age of 30s and 40s, he was still thin. In "Meet John Doe", there was a scene that Barbara Stanwyck took a good look at his face and body before hiring him as John Doe, the camera panned and zoomed from head to toe, front and back, you can see Cooper had no ass. Cooper at the time had already become the the top box office draw but mainly for representing the ideal American man image, not really a sex symbol.

R17 You sound butt-hurt.

Tall, strong silent type and hung, he's adorable in his prime, a tall glass of water when you're very very thirsty hits the spot. ;-)

R18 well he had no butt, so it would not hurt, even though he had a horse dick , no butt to move it! - Carole Lombard

R19 a tall glass of water when you're very very thirsty

There are ten tall glasses of water in this link.

(But there also some silly, queenly title-tale)

Gary Cooper was a beautiful man in his prime. But by 1957, 55-year-old Cooper looked way too old to be playing Audrey Hepburn's love interest in "Love in the Afternoon," and the movie tanked, with critics and audiences commenting on his age. The next year, he went and got a full facelift, which rendered him practically unrecognizable.

^ nonsense!

The silent movie make up only enhanced his beauty.

Here is the botched facelift R22 was referring to

I think that’s just a bad photo though.

I think he's a good candidate for the most beautiful man in the history of movies - at least when he was young. No ass, it's true, but tall, lean, and with a face perfectly balanced between masculine/chiseled and sensual.

That said, whenever I watch his him in his later movies, I can't get Pauline Kael's quote out of my mind: "Frank Capra destroyed Gary Cooper's early sex appeal when he made him childish as Mr. Deeds. Cooper, once devastatingly lean and charming, the man Tallulah and Marlene swooned over, began to act like an old woman and went on to a long sexless career - fumbling, homey, mealy-mouthed."

R26 huh, a bad photo won't grow a new pixie ear for you, a (bad) facelift does that though

Oh Jesus I hadn’t noticed that. Yikes.

R14 SJW = Social Justice Warrior

The best thing I can say about him is that at 6'3 he was nice and tall. But there were certainly tall men who looked better than him and with better bodies. His features are effeminate and he had a fucked up hairline. Y'all can have him!

He was stunning in the 20s and 30s -- sex on (long) legs.

But he really did age badly, especially when you compare him to Cary Grant, who was a similar type and just 3 years younger. Compare what Grant looked like in North by Northwest when he was 56 to how Cooper looked in Love in the Afternoon.

Sad.

PSA: Don't smoke, and don't drink too much, boys and girls!

Glorious.

Great face when young.

R32, speaking of which, Cary Grant was originally offered Gary Cooper's role in "Love in the Afternoon," but he turned it down because he felt he was too old to be paired up with Audrey Hepburn. He didn't seem to mind being paired with Sophia Loren, who was several years younger than Hepburn, for "Houseboat," shot the following year. Six years later, Grant starred opposite Hepburn in "Charade." Maybe he thought Audrey's age had caught up to his.

The kid from Diff'rent Strokes?

[quote] Six years later, Grant starred opposite Hepburn in "Charade." Maybe he thought Audrey's age had caught up to his.

Grant was uncomfortable with the age difference in "Charade". That is why the scenario was changed so that Audrey's character was chasing Grant's character throughout the film. He keeps pushing her away, mentioning the age difference, but Audrey has him in her sights and continues.

I don't recall anything similar in "Love in the Afternoon", but it's been a while since I last saw it. And, the age difference was much, much more obvious in LITA. And Audrey was playing a girl who lived with her father.

Audrey was playing a widow in "Charade", a more mature woman, although no where near Cary Grant in age.

A few weeks ago, I watched Wings (1927). (Those air-fight sequences really hold up, btw). Anyway, midway through the movie, an incredibly tall, smolderingly hot man in a leather jacket appears. It was the young Gary Cooper, and one look at him told that that he would be a star until the day he died.

R7 it was his dick that was long!😁😂😛😍🤣😊

Tallulah Bankhead contracted gonorrhea from either Gary Cooper or George Raft, which led to an emergency hysterectomy.

'Looking aged and ill-he has huge bags under his eyes' is how Pauline Kael described Cooper in his last film: The Naked Edge (1961). He died of cancer before the film's release 6 days after his 60th birthday

R21 interesting! I had no idea about his homosexual indiscretion, I don't know how true it was, but in the early days Gary Cooper was well known for sleeping with famous actresses to advance his own career, so it is totally possible for him to be with rich and famous men too.

Super Duper.

Hott

I would have let him do whatever he wanted with me, within (gay vanilla) reason, of course. I'd even let him call me Lupe.

He was the most beautiful man of his era but sadly he got old quickly. Tyrone Power had the same issue.

Someone once asked Ernst Lubitsch why he thought of Gary Cooper when he saw Greta Garbo onscreen and Garbo when he saw Cooper. Lubitsch said that was because Garbo and Cooper were essentially the same person, bland and dull offscreen.

If you want to see him at his most beautiful, watch him in "Beau Geste," a tale of the French Foreign Legion, released in 1939.. Coop aged badly, but in this movie he was at his most beautiful. Ray Milland and Robert Preston, playing his brothers, weren't so bad, either.

My all time favourite of Gary Cooper, despite the cigarette. Seems he might have enjoyed the occasional dick when younger. There’s a photo of him and Clark Gable going on a fishing trip together. If it’s right, and Clark was also partial to some occasional dick makes me look at the picture in a very different light. (I wish).

This is my favorite of him (with Fredric March in Design for Living).

^ I found Fredric March more attractive

'Fredric March' is sexy name but it wasn't genuine.

R52 not too far off from his real name - Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel, "March" was borrowed from her mother's side (Cora Brown Marcher), also in some films he starred, he was credited as "Frederic" March, it was a spelling error but not for the reason you might have thought. The technicians in the movie studio when they prepared the film credit, some saw the name "Fredric" from the list and they thought it was "Frederic" misspelled, so they added that "e" back and put it on the final screen, it was an act of correcting the misspelled name caused a real misspelled name.

Scorsese stole the 'Fredric March' real name for 'Travis Bickle' in 'Taxi Driver'.

Scorsese would tell us it's an 'homage'.

Ernest Bickel was handsome and Gary Cooper was beautiful.

It's crazy thinking these two attractive men would be chasing the hatchet-faced Miriam Hopkins in this lame version of Noel Coward's play.

R55 Is that you Bette Davis? Still angry over how you never got those 3rd and 4th Oscars you felt you were due? Or how you never had the sex appeal Miriam Hopkins did in the 30s?

Miriam Hopkins had the sex appeal of a spade.

My mother's favorite probably since he resembled my father. He was ok.

a striking young Fredric March!

^ Very striking indeed and he kept his good bones until 1960.

R58 interesting, if your dad looks like Cooper, what about you? lol

Fredric March was a HOT DILF in his 40s!

How many of these stupid "what do you think of (fill in the blank)'s looks?" threads are there now? There was one about Princess Diana, and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and Elizabeth Taylor. What is there to think about the looks of someone who is obviously good looking? I guess the troll's future threads will be:

What you you think of Greta Garbo's looks?

What do you think of Grace Kelly's looks?

What do you think of Ava Gardner's looks?

What do you think of Paul Neman's looks?

What do you think of Robert Redford's looks?

What do you think of Montgomery Clift's looks?

I was going to say there would be one entitled "What do you think of Marilyn Monroe's looks?" but there was some idiot thread asking who was more beautiful Marilyn Monroe or Madonna, so I guess that counts as one of these stupid "what do you think of (name of someone very good looking)'s looks?" threads.

I don't think Fredric March was very good looking as he got older but he was very attractive in the 30s when he was young.

I can see why others find him attractive but he just doesn't do it for me. OTOH, the "poor man's Gary Cooper", Joel McCrea? Absolute sex on a stick.

I also find Fredric March very hot.

r65 = Maureen Stapleton

Maureen was right.

He was a handsome so and so. Iconic.

Super Hot

Joel McCrea is very underrated but my favorite as well. I don't think anybody beat him in the looks department. I also respected how he refused to be paired up romantically with younger co-stars as he aged. Gary Cooper could have learned a lesson in that department.

Jean & Joel

I think that's the most erotic scene to ever exist

R68 I'd need subtitles before I could understand what they're saying.

Thank you, thank you, , R71.

This scene from "The More The Merrier" is hilarious. Pay no attention to what either one is saying. Just how they are acting.

Joel McCrea was gorgeous in this movie.

There is a scene in the same movie, in the apartment where he is standing in a doorway, leaning against the door frame. No dialogue. Just standing there. I think he was watching her.

Completely gorgeous.

He was very handsome. Men have been trying to imitate him and his look for generations.

Stunningly handsome

He was handsome as hell. Anybody with a working pair of eyes could see that. Cooper was also a classic Hollywood hound, having numerous affairs while married to his "high class" wife Veronica "Rocky" Cooper. She was Catholic so divorce was never an option. He had a supposedly serious affair with Patricia Neal. She became pregnant by him but aborted the baby, which she regretted for the rest of her life. She thought he would leave his wife and marry her; he and his wife separated but eventually reconciled. Many years later he told her he loved her but could never hurt his daughter by leaving her mother. Neal had a nervous breakdown when her affair with Cooper ended. She eventually married, to the truly dreadful writer Roald Dahl. But she always said that what she had with Cooper was her one, true "great love."

Was Gary Cooper homophobic?

According to Darwin Porter he had a torrid affair with Joel McCrea. Hot!

[quote] According to Darwin Porter he had a torrid affair with Joel McCrea. Hot!

According to gullible fantasists he had an affair with Joel McCrea.

R80 Sozzled eldergays gasping around the pool would believe any nonsensical fantasy. They believe what Donald Spoto and Eric Cervini tell them.

R59, R62 Until he lost his air

I believe the quote the poster above was looking for came from Clara Bow:

"Poor Gary. The biggest dick in Hollywood and no ass to push it with."

R83 One of my favorite quotes. I think she also called him the “Montana Mule.” Clara Bow seemed like a blast. So what if she fucked that entire football team? Shame how her career died so quickly.

Like Ben Afflicted, flat ass and bony legs.

R35 Cary Grant was in love with Sophia Loren. Their chemistry in Houseboat is off the charts.

R35 if you watch "Love in the Afternoon" with fresh mind you'll see that Gary Cooper had an incidental supporting role in the drama. Wilder was much more interested in the relationship between the anxious overworked father (Chevalier) and the extremely naive, needy daughter (Hepburn).

It seems that that first sound film scene with Margot Robbie in BABYLON is based on Clara Bow's first experience filming a talkie.

It was my favorite scene in the that movie. And I don't think Bow's sound technician dropped dead.

That’s a bald wig R82!