Happy Holidays from The Fence! It’s never been a better time to be a classic film fan. With numerous theatre screenings across the country, the TCM Film Festival, never before released and remastered films on DVD/Blu-ray– there’s an abundance of goodies for every fan....
Day 26: Gary Cooper
posted by Michael Nazarewycz
Today the TCM Summer Under the Stars spotlight shines brightly on the handsome and talented everyman, Gary Cooper. Margaret Perry of The Great Katharine Hepburn offers her take on Cooper in Ball of Fire Sean from The Joy and Agony of Movies offers a his own take on Cooper in Ball of Fire...
Ernst Lubitsch’s Des...
posted by Jill Blake
by The Lady Eve Fredric March was an Oscar winner and a newly minted Hollywoodstar when he co-starred with Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper in Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 adaptation of the Noel Coward play Design for Living. In 1929, when all the major studios were scouring the Broadway stage for...
Gary Cooper: Endurin...
posted by Jill Blake
When thinking about men’s fashion in old Hollywood, there are two actors who immediately come to mind: Cary Grant and Gary Cooper. Both had impeccable taste and appreciated high quality, custom tailored clothing, and both had wardrobes inspired by European fashion. Although Grant looked...
