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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Thursday, May 25, 1961 The Gary Cooper Exclusive Story-Tribu- ne 7 I Had No Talent as an everything In the ner. of Lou Gehrig, the baseball player. Later came "Saratoga Trunk, an Edna Ferber, in which Ingrid Bergman was again my costar. Those were great stories. A star settles Friday down. , In between, I got to know Hemingway as a friend. Copyright 0 1961 by McCall Corporation.) , York one evening, I was telling Jerry and his wife my prob-lem- . man- grand the nety contract, I got to play "A In Ernest Hemingways Farewell to Arms, opposite Helen Hayes. A decade later, I played another Hemingway hero in "For Whom the Bell Tolls, Opposite Ingred Berg-man- . When I pronounced myself We met in Idaho in the fall JERKY SAID, "Were on our well enough to ride, she simpof 1936 and shot ducks and us. Come with to summoned the Africa. way Italian ly We still pheasants X cavalry to keep me company. I The old urge swept over me meet there together. hunt-- ! for fall, every postponed that searching look like a cool breeze. So I took the at myself and concentrated cn rest of my savings and went to ing and conversation. IN FACT, we were there to- believing I was really a play- Africa.- - f I stayed there for five gether when the first copies of boy, until my five weeks were i months. Resting at the Pres- "For Whom the Bell Tolls up, tons home, going on safari in came off the press and were WHEN MY SHIP docked in the high country of Tan- sent to Hemingway. New York, the studio had a pic- ganyika did me a world of He gave Rocky and me one ture waiting, right there in the good. and Inscribed it beautifully. I wrote Paramount about it. city in the middle of summer. It was "His Woman, with ON THE WAY home, I read and they made a deal. that Paramount had signed an Claudette Colbert BETWEEN THE two HemHalfway through shooting, I English actor named Archie ingway pictures, there were name him the feel terrible Leach, given to again, began went to a doctor, who shook Cary Grant and were publiciz- several others that got a warm his head the way I had planned ing him as the new Gary reception from the public: to shake my own at myself. Cooper. He even had my Ini- "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, a Frank Capra comedy; "Sertials, reversed. . HE SAID I was dangerously geant York, which got me my conout on walked had I my anemic and should quit all tract and was unemployed. But first Academy Award; Pride work for six months, perhaps in Africas high country, I had of the Yankees, the biography a year. He said it would take looked myself over and decided at least that long to regain my that maybe, after all, I was a weight, get a normal blood movie actor. I might never concount, and get the jaundice out vince myself. But a lot of peoof my system. ple thought so including my I reported this to Para- studio, which thought I was mount. They said they had an- important enough to warrant other picture Waiting for me a new Gary Cooper. in Hollywood. I advised Paramount that I told them the doctor had the original article was seemed dead serious. medico, and exotic Maria ready to go back to work. Hanging Tree, frontier film. They said theyd given me a I would sign a new contract, five weeks vacation, and I had provided I got a lot more around had something to say got a cable from Walter Wan-ger- , only spent it cavorting with coun- money, about what pictures I would urging me to look up an the countryside old friend of his, Countess tesses and the Italian cavalry. do and the number of pictures Dorothy di Frasso, at her Villa They Were getting pretty hot I would make every year. I under the collar, talking about wanted to do stories that were Madama in Rome. and injunctions, and I credible, that fitted my perlawyers THE COUNTESS, born was feeling pretty feverish sonality on the screen and that Dorothy Taylor in New York, didnt clash with the beliefs me in hand like the lost t;"': didn't terrible so I felt I people held of me. lad I was. Her villa was a did. I care what they internafor the meeting place AFTER A FEW days tional set, and rubbing elbows wanted to get away. haggling, we came to terms. It with assorted noblemen, Through Countess Dorothy, worked out very well from heiresses and celebrated char- I hd3 met a man named Jer- then on so well that I never acters made me forget my ome Preston, who owned a again thought of going to art fears. farm in Africa, on the shore of school in Chicago. Countess Dorothy did Lake Nyasa. At dinner in New : As one of the provisions In 1- - I play some of the scenes. THAT DAY, we w?re sched- tiled to do an important and I sensed correct- there was an argu- that ly j ment going on in the front of- lice as to whether they should continue the picture with me in it. Waiting around, hearing a ! few of the details, I got that urge to get out to some open place, where I could see my- self uninterruptedly. I walked out and disappeared. ? I got no further than Malibu Beach, where I spent the night walking up and down the sand j and making up my mind. It was going to be Chicago. I I didnt know if I had the talent to be an artist, but I could try. I knew, for sure, I wasnt an actor. a RUBLES MY MIND made up, I went back to Hollywood and went to - a restaurant where nearly everybody at Paramount met for lunch. I wanted to meet my friends there and break the news. When I walked in, the pro- ducer and director of the pic-- ! ture jumped up and ran to- ward me with outstretched hands, relief written all over their faces. The moguls had seen the rushes and decided it ; was all right to continue with me. When the picture was re-- 1 leased, audiences seemed to believe I really could be a ! man of the world. . I could thank my directors ; patience for that. For the next five years, the I studio kept me busy, and I got enough confidence to pretend, between scenes, that I really liked this business of acting. ! V; ' 'V-- Gary Cooper, cast as a Schell in love scene from "The had taken was that panchromatic film' had been introduced, so I didnt have to wear such thick make-uany more. After the success of "The Vfrginian," I got so busy that I Was making one picture in the daytime and another at night. 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