【往事】荧幕之外

Hobbies: Fishing, hunting, riding, swimming, and taxidermy.
库珀的爱好：钓鱼、打猎、骑马、游泳及制作动物标本。

Worked as a Yellowstone Park guide for several seasons before becoming an actor.
在成为一位演员之前，库珀在黄石公园当了几个月的导游。

Father of Maria Cooper.
库珀与自己的妻子育有一女，名为玛利亚·库珀。

Father-in-law of pianist and composer Byron Janis.
他是钢琴家、作曲家拜伦贾尼斯的岳父。

Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1966.
库珀于1966年入选西部表演大厅。

[on Cary Grant] I say he's a crack comedian, and isn't competition for me at all.
对于加里·格兰特，库珀表示他是一位优秀的喜剧演员，却并不愿与之竞争。

In 1974, Cooper's body was removed from Holy Cross Cemetary and reburied under a three ton boulder at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Southampton, Long Island. His wife explained, " Gary loved Southapton. This is what he would want.".
1974年，库珀的尸体自圣十字公墓运至长岛南安普敦的公墓中重三吨的巨石下。他的妻子解释说：“库珀喜欢这里，这是他一直想要的。”

According to James Garner's autobiography Cooper developed the habit of paying for everything by cheque, knowing that people would keep it for his signature and never cash it.
根据詹姆斯·加纳所写的传记中看，库珀保持以支票付款的习惯，而知道他的人会保持他的签名，从不将支票兑换掉。

The word "obey" was removed from the traditional marriage vow taken by Cooper and wife Veronica in 1933. They reportedly had an "open marriage.".
"obey"这个单词于1933年从库珀与妻子的结婚誓言中删除，据报道，他们所拥有的是一个“开放的婚姻”。

Born Frank Cooper, he changed his first name to Gary at the suggestion of his agent, Nan Collins, whose hometown was Gary, Indiana.
在经纪人的建议下，库珀以南·柯林斯的家乡“家里”为名，将弗兰克·库珀更为加里·库珀。

His father, an English immigrant to Montana who became a wealthy lawyer and rancher, was a judge on the Montana Supreme Court.
库珀的父亲，一位富有的的律师和牧场主，自英国移民至蒙大拿州，成为蒙大拿州最高法院法官。

He is the step-uncle of Brooke Shields. Her grandfather is Cooper's wife's step-father, Paul Shields.
侄女波克·西尔德斯的祖父是库珀妻子的继父保罗·西尔德斯。

He was in a car accident as a teenager that caused him to walk with a limp the rest of his life.
他在少年时期经历过一场车祸，导致他在剩余的生命中只好跛行。

Marlene Dietrich said about him: "Gary Cooper was neither intelligent nor cultured. Just like the other actors, he was chosen for his physique, which, after all, was more important than an active brain.".
玛琳·黛德丽评价库珀：“他既不聪明，也没有被作为一个演员和培养。就像其他的演员一样，他被自己的特质所选择，这毕竟比大脑重要得多。”