Biografia

According to James Garner's autobiography Cooper developed the habit of paying for everything by check, knowing that people would keep it for his signature and never cash it (it was a trick also used by Pablo Picasso, who once said he had seldom paid for anything--from lunches to cars to houses--because of it.

Was close friends with Ernest Hemingway for 20 years. Hemingway shot himself a month after Cooper's death.

In 1951, after 25 years in show business, his professional reputation declined and he was dropped from the Motion Picture Herald's list of the top 10 Box Office performers. The following year he made a big comeback at the age of 51 with Matar ou Morrer (1952).

In 1925 he befriended another young, struggling, would-be actor named Walter Brennan. At one point they were even appearing as a team at casting offices, and although Cooper emerged in major and leading roles first, they would work together in the good years, too. Most memorably they starred in O Galante Aventureiro (1940) together, where the general critical consensus was that Brennan's underplayed performance as Judge Roy Bean had stolen the film from Cooper.

Often cited James Stewart as his closest friend.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

If you hit the mark with two out of every five movies you'll keep the wheels of the cycle turning.

To get folks to like you, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fellow who answered the description of a right guy.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

[in 1931] I haven't read a half a dozen books in my life.

A Tortura da Suspeita (1961) - $275,000

O Navio Condenado (1959) - $275,000

Heróis de Barro (1959) - $275,000

A Árvore dos Enforcados (1959) - $275,000

O Homem do Oeste (1958) - $295,000