''Gary Cooper: The Signature Collection'' on DVD November 7 from Warner Home Video.BURBANK, Calif. -- Another American icon receives the Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. deluxe treatment with the release of "Gary Cooper: The Signature Collection" on November 7. All new to DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and remastered, the 6-disc boxed set features "Sergeant York Two-Disc Special Edition," with Cooper's Academy Award(R) Best Actor performance, as well as "The Fountainhead foun·tain·head n. 1. A spring that is the source or head of a stream. 2. A chief and copious source; an originator: "the intellectual fountainhead of the black conservatives" ," "Springfield Rifle," "The Wreck of Mary Deare" and "Dallas." "Gary Cooper: The Signature Collection" will be available for $49.92 SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. . All titles are exclusive to the collection, except "Sergeant York Two-Disc Special Edition," which will also sell separately for $26.99 SRP, and "The Fountainhead," available for $19.97 SRP. Frank James Cooper was born in Helena, Montana on May 7, 1901. Moving to Hollywood in the mid-1920s, he began to work as a stunt man and bit actor in a series of westerns. A small role in "Wings" (1927) catapulted him to leading man status. With the introduction of sound to films, "Coop" became a bigger star than ever when his first all-talking western, "The Virginian," became a box office smash. His strong, silent, action-oriented hero image was ideal for the '30s in a string of big hits including "The Spoilers," "Morocco" and "Design For Living" opposite Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Crawford and others. Cooper left Paramount in the late '30s for Samuel Goldwyn and quickly attained superstar status with strong roles in big films, including "The Westerner west·ern·er also West·ern·er n. A native or inhabitant of the west, especially the western United States. Westerner Noun a person from the west of a country or region Noun 1. ," "Meet John Doe John Doe formerly, any plaintiff; now just anybody. [Am. Pop. Usage: Brewer Dictionary, 329] See : Everyman " and "Ball of Fire." Cooper starred in more than 90 films, earning two Best Actor Academy Awards, one for "Sergeant York" in which he was hand-picked for the role by Sergeant Alvin York himself, followed by "High Noon." In 1961, Cooper also received an honorary Oscar, "for his many memorable screen performances and the international recognition he, as an individual, has gained for the motion picture industry." He passed away the same year, but his distinctly American persona has continued to captivate, landing him the number 18 spot in Entertainment Weekly's poll of the Greatest Movie Stars of All Time. The American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase also named him number 11 on their list of 50 Greatest Screen Legends. E-mail requests for materials to karenpenhale@cs-pr.com. Art can be downloaded at www.whvdirect.com. |
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