【档案】加里·库珀的一生。

Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper (not in film business). Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. His first stage experience was during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a part in a two reeler by Hans Tissler (an independent producer). Eileen Sedgwick was his first leading lady. He then appeared in The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) for United Artists before moving to Paramount. While there he appeared in a small part in Wings (1927), It (1927), and other films.
加里·库珀出生于一个非电影家庭，于高中第一次登台，随后在电影中扮演一些小角色。

"Dad was a true Westerner, and I take after him", Gary Cooper told people who wanted to know more about his life before Hollywood.
“我的父亲是一位真正的西部人，我也一样。”库珀总是用这句话答复那些企图打探他在好莱坞生活的人。

Dad was Charles Henry Cooper, who left his native England at 19, became a lawyer and later a Montana State Supreme Court justice. In 1906, when Gary was 5, his dad bought the Seven-Bar-Nine, a 600-acre ranch that had originally been a land grant to the builders of the railroad through that part of Montana.

In 1910, Gary's mother, who had been ill, was advised to take a long sea voyage by her doctor. She went to England and stayed there until the United States entered World War I. Gary and his older brother Arthur stayed with their mother and went to school in England for seven years. Too young to go to war, Gary spent the war years working on his father's ranch.
加里的母亲由于病痛被建议远航英国，和母亲待在一起的加里与他的哥哥在英国的学校学习七年，一直持续到美国参加一战。由于当时的加里尚未达到参军年龄，他便在战争期间打理父亲的农场。

"Getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning in the dead of winter to feed 450 head of cattle and shoveling manure at 40 below ain't romantic", said the man who would take the Western to the top of its genre in High Noon (1952).
“隆冬的清晨，五点起床，以便于及时喂养四百五十头牛；再与40度以下的天气打理牛粪，这样的生活并不浪漫。”这位将西部片推向高潮的荧幕英雄如是说。

So well liked was Cooper that he aroused little envy when, in 1939, the U.S. Treasury Department said that he was the nation's top wage earner. That year he earned $482,819. This tall, silent hero was the American ideal for many people of his generation.
那一年他赚得482819美元，据1939年美国财政部的统计，他成了那一年收入最高的人。这位高大、内敛的英雄，是那一代美国人的理想。

Once a guide in Yellowstone National Park and an aspiring cartoonist, Gary Cooper began his movie career as an extra in many-a low-budget western and later went on to play starring roles in a variety of film genres, becoming one of Hollywood's most popular leading men for almost thirty years.
加里·库珀主演的多种类型的电影角色，都使他成为好莱坞三十年来最受欢迎的男演员。

By 1929, Cooper had graduated from bit parts to leading roles but was still playing primarily in westerns, among them Victor Fleming's THE VIRGINIAN (1929), an adaptation of Owen Wister's novel co-starring Walter Huston and Richard Arlen. As the title character and foreman of Box H Ranch, Cooper spars with his best friend Arlen for the affections of Mary Brian -- not complex, but classic.

A poster from OPERATOR 13 (1934) with Marion Davies. In this American Civil War drama Cooper plays a confederate officer, Capt. Jack Gailliard, who falls in love with Davies, a Union spy.

Cooper as tuba player, poet, and philanthropic multimillionaire Longfellow Deeds with scheming newspaper reporter Jean Arthur in Frank Capra's MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936). The film's five Oscar nominations included one for Cooper (his first) but DEEDS lost out to THE GREAT ZIEGFELD in the Best Picture category.

"I tramped the earth with hopeless beat
Searching in vain for a glimpse of you.
Then heaven thrust you at my very feet--
A lovely angel, too lovely to woo.
My dream has been answered
But my life's just as bleak.
I'm handcuffed and speechless in your presence divine.
For my heart longs to cry out,
If it only could speak,
'I love you, my angel. Be mine. Be mine.'"
--Longfellow Deeds' poem to 'Mary Dawson' in MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936).

After their success together in MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN for Jean Arthur's home studio of Columbia Pictures, Cooper's home studio,Paramount Pictures, borrowed Arthur from Columbia to co-star opposite Cooper again in director Cecil B. DeMille's western adventure tale of Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane, THE PLAINSMAN (1936). It takes a few liberties with historical accuracy but makes an enjoyable picture. Unfortunately, THE PLAINSMAN also marks the second and last time Cooper and Arthur would co-star together.

Back to adventure tales, Cooper co-starred alongside Ray Milland and Robert Preston in William A. Wellman's adaptation of Christopher Wren's novel BEAU GESTE (1939). Playing the title character, Michael "Beau" Geste, Cooper and his two orphaned brothers grow up to fight with the foreign legion.

Cooper teamed with director Frank Capra for a second time in 1941's MEET JOHN DOE, a depression-era story about a newspaper columnist (Barbara Stanwyck, with Cooper at right) who launches a populist political movement when she convinces a homeless man (Cooper) to pretend he plans to committing suicide as a protest against current economic and social conditions. Although the script contains a lot of sermonizing in parts, MEET JOHN DOE makes its point in an entertaining manner and earned an Oscar nomination for its original story.

Also in 1941, Cooper received his second Academy Award nomination and his first Oscar for his performance as real-life World War I pacifist turned Medal of Honor winner Alvin C. York in Howard Hawks' biopic SERGEANT YORK (1941). Also starring Walter Brennan andJoan Leslie, SERGEANT YORK received an incredible 11 Oscar nominations and carried an important pre-World War II message about the need for the United States to get involved in the already-raging European conflict.