Gary Cooper timeline

The Film Version of 'A Farewell to Arms' Is Released

Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes play Frederic and Catherine, a soldier and nurse who fall for each other in wartime, and they are matched perfectly.... Read more

'Today We Live' Premieres in Theatres

Writing Credits: William Faulkner - (story "Turn About") Edith Fitzgerald - (screenplay) Dwight Taylor - (screenplay) William Faulkner -... Read more

"The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer" Is Released

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. The plot of the... Read more

"Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" Is Released

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 comedy film directed by Frank Capra, based on the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland that appeared in... Read more

"Sergeant York" Is Released

Sergeant York is a 1941 biographical film about the life of Alvin York, the most-decorated American soldier of World War I. It was directed by... Read more

"Ball Of Fire" Is Released

Ball of Fire (also known as The Professor and the Burlesque Queen) is a 1941 comedy film about a group of professors laboring for years to write an... Read more

14th Academy Awards

The 14th Academy Awards may be most infamous, in retrospect, as the year in which Citizen Kane (consistently regarded as one of the greatest films... Read more

"The Pride Of The Yankees" Is Released

The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 biographical film directed by Sam Wood about the New York Yankees baseball player, first baseman Lou Gehrig, who... Read more

"For Whom The Bell Tolls" Film Is Released

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 film in Technicolor based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. It stars Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff... Read more

"High Noon" Is Released

High Noon is an American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells the story of a town... Read more

25th Academy Awards

The 25th Academy Awards honoring the best movies of 1952, were held on March 19, 1953, from the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California and... Read more

"Friendly Persuasion" Is Released

Friendly Persuasion is a 1956 Palme d'Or-winning Civil War film starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer, Robert... Read more

"Love In The Afternoon" Is Released

Love in the Afternoon is a 1957 romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, and Maurice Chevalier, and directed by Billy Wilder. It... Read more