Word: cooperatives
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novelist Rand sees it, the creative individual (Gary Cooper as a daring young architect) is threatened with extinction by the collective herd (Raymond Massey and Robert Douglas as the publisher and architecture critic of a powerful New York newspaper). Though photographed as if it were a titanic struggle between conflicting principles, what follows turns out to be a tussle between neurotic pinheads. At one point. Cooper dynamites several blocks worth of a housing project to assert his artistic integrity. Blowing hot & cold on Cooper's ambitions, Massey finally puts a bullet through his own head after commissioning Cooper...
Like a runaway Wagnerian opera, Fountainhead lumbers from crisis to crisis in a hysterical crescendo of muddleheaded talk and stagy pretentiousness. Its final, most brassy explosion: an enormous, foreshortened view of Gary Cooper-presumably a hulking symbol of rugged individualism -straddling the topmost scaffolding of his new skyscraper. Apparently aimed at Communist and other critics of the American way, Fountainhead will provide some of the corniest grist for Soviet propaganda mills that Hollywood has produced in a long time...
Died. Colonel Harry Cooper (ret.), 52, onetime Secret Service agent (1921-42) and part-time personal bodyguard to four Presidents (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt), wartime provost marshal in the CBI theater who uncovered a $10 million air-smuggling ring operated by Army Air Forces men and local racketeers; by his own hand (.45-caliber automatic); in Baltimore...
Berman, Ronald, Stanley, Cairus, David Drew, Durakis, Charles Anthony, Ellis, Jack Thomas, Geick, Harold William (Captain), Gregory, David Palache, Grutzner, Edward Ehlers, Hunt, Roger Browne, Master, Alan Harold, McGrath, Thomas Joseph, McLaughlin, James Lachlan, Murphy, Gerald Dale, Ravreby, Frederick Aaron, Rubin, Richard Herschel, Scudder, Thayer, Weiskopf, Richard Walter, Cooper, Paul Fenimore, Jr. (Manager...
...frustrated youth, is competent as are few actors on the screen today. His shuffling walk, his painful stare, convey a sense of frustration and misery that lacks nothing. The supporting players, none of whom are "name" actors, bring out to the fullest the psychological implications of every scene. Clarence Cooper, a counsellor at Wiltwyck, plays himself in an especially sympathetic and understanding...