Gary Cooper: Enduring Style

by G. Bruce Boyer, Ruth Ansel, Maria Cooper Janis

Dressed up like a million-dollar trouper/
Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper/ Super duper
-"Puttin' on the Ritz," Irving Berlin (revised lyrics, 1946)

In 1946, when Irving Berlin revised the lyrics to his 1928 "Puttin' on the Ritz" to include those memorable lines, Gary Cooper had been a star for over 15 years, and it would have been hard for most men to look as super duper. He conveyed a straightforwardness and an honest, American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576875865
• ISBN13: 9781576875865
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.9" x 10.6"