Throughout his long and distinguished career, Gary Cooper consistently projected a screen image of integrity and sincerity that epitomized the ideal American. Tall, handsome and soft-spoken, he injected his own likable self into whatever role assumed, always triumphing over adversity, regardless of the odds or circumstances. He never played a malicious or dishonest man; that would have just been too much against type, and 'Coop' possessed an uncanny intuitive sense about what was theatrically right. He was arguably the greatest natural actor in American cinema (though some critics dismissed
