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.

Deeds Goes to Town) and drama (The Pride of the Yankees). Maria later married classical pianist Byron Janis. Cooper studied at Iowa's Grinnell College until the spring of 1924 but did not graduate.

He also received an Honorary Award in 1961 from the Academy. Noted for his stoic understated style Cooper found success in a number of film genres including westerns (High Noon) crime (City Streets) comedy (Mr.