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1. One of the six movies Gary Cooper made in 1927 was "Wings," which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, then called "Outstanding Picture#". His two-minute role is as Cadet White, a World War I flyer who is the tentmate of the two stars. When he is called to a training exercise, he crashes, leaving something behind on his bunk. What was it?
2. Gary Cooper's first all-talking movie was "The Virginian", a classic Western about rivals for the affections of a pretty schoolmarm. Though you couldn't hear him say it, what memorable line appears on a title card?
3. Gary Cooper's last movie role of the 1930s is as a French Foreign Legion soldier, a role he had previously played in the 1928 silent "Beau Sabreur". His female co-star is making her talking picture debut as a sexy nightclub singer, a role she'd previously played in her native language. Who is this siren?
4. In 1933, Gary Cooper appeared in a fantasy adaptation of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland". Other actors included W.C. Fields and Cary Grant. What role did Cooper play?
5. "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" is the 1936 film version about an amiable small-town fellow who inherits $20 million (about $47,500,000) from a relative. Deeds has a reputation for being eccentric, partly because of a particular hobby. What does Deeds like to do?
6. In 1939 Gary Cooper appeared in "Beau Geste", the remake of a 1926 silent film starring Ronald Colman. As in that previous film and the book on which it is based, Michael "Beau" Geste runs away to the Foreign Legion after falsely confessing to a theft. What did he claim to have stolen?
7. The first year of the 1940s was a bonanza for Gary Cooper. First, he starred in "Meet John Doe", similar in tone to "Mr. Deeds" with Cooper as an itinerant former baseball player who is being manipulate and exploited by a female newspaper reporter who has a change of heart. Next came the film in which he played a real-life person who became famous in the early 20th century. Who was it?
8. Gary Cooper received his third Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in "The Pride of the Yankees", in which he played Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig. What real-life teammate appeared in the film?
9. Gary Cooper's fifth and final nomination for Best Actor - and second win - was in "High Noon", in which he plays Will Kane, a newly-wed sheriff who needs his bride's support in facing down the bad guys. She refuses, and says she's leaving on the noon train - the same train on which the Miller gang will arrive. What explanation does she give for not helping her husband?
10. One of Gary Cooper's later films is "Love in the Afternoon", a romantic comedy that stars Cooper as a millionaire playboy who falls in love with a much younger woman who will not tell him her name. Cooper was almost thirty years older than his youthful co-star, and this contributed to the film's failure. Who was his leading lady?
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