Word: cooperativeness
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With an adeptness rivaling that of Preston Sturges, script-writer Nunnally Johnson has teamed Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright in a fast-moving comedy of briedgrooms-almost-to-be and little-babies-by-former-wives, teeming itself, with mysterious notes from Chicago Maternity Hospitals and half-hour engagements to hotel chamber maids...
Casanova Brown (International). More successfully than most stars, Gary Cooper has managed to remain popular with both men & women. For women one of his strongest attractions has been a rugged quasi-helplessness, as of Prometheus bound, or a Great Dane on a tea wagon. International Pictures, in its first production, has shrewdly carried this appeal to its sure-fire ultimate: it has saddled Gary Cooper with the care & feeding of a baby...
...this rattlebang old stage hit by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell (Little Accident, 1928) Mr. Cooper comes by his crushing responsibility somewhat unconventionally. For some time, in fact, as Cooper and his prospective second father-in-law Frank Morgan gamily swap innuendoes, the audience thrills to the possibility that he is the father of one of cinema's rare bastards, and a farcical one at that. For he is called to Chicago on the day he is to marry a home-town girl, to do his duty by Teresa Wright in a lying-in hospital. As it turns...
...Cooper, luckily, is well qualified to keep such comic material within range of masculine bearability. Miss Wright, unluckily, has little on which to employ her charm and talent. Frank Morgan and Patricia Collinge, in supporting roles, display a veteran's generosity with laughs, and Nunnally Johnson's script establishes him more solidly than ever as one of Hollywood's surest humorists. (Typical Johnson scene: a gruesome wedding rehearsal in a small-town church...
Instead, Mr. Johnson is now incorporated as the Christy Corp. (named after his two-year-old daughter), which is to write and produce two pictures a year for International. Like Gary Cooper, also under exclusive contract as actor-producer, he will get 49% of the profits from every picture he produces. At the moment he has taken ten weeks off on a private deal to write a script which Cooper will produce and act in-again for International. For this side order he is getting a flat...