A Gary Cooper Group of Set Stills from His Films

A Gary Cooper Group of Set Stills from His Films Including Betrayal, The Virginian, Seven Days' Leave, Only the Brave, A Man from Wyoming, Fighting Caravans, City Streets, I Take This Woman, Devil and the Deep, If I Had a Million, One Sunday Afternoon, Alice in Wonderland, Now and Forever, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Peter Ibbetson, The General Died at Dawn, The Plainsman, Souls at Sea, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, North West Mounted Police, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Please note that there may be some duplication of photographs in each film folder. Betrayal (aka Tale of the Alps) (Paramount Pictures, 1929). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Lewis Milestone. A group of 6 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in. The Virginian (Paramount Pictures, 1929). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Victor Fleming. Approximately 25 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in. Seven Days' Leave (Paramount Pictures, 1930). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Richard Wallace. Approximately 25 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., some with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso. Only the Brave (Paramount Pictures, 1930). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Frank Tuttle. Approximately 9 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., some with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso. A Man from Wyoming (Paramount Pictures, 1930). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Rowland V. Lee. Approximately 20 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., some with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso, one featuring Gary Cooper and Regis Toomey. Fighting Caravans (Paramount Pictures, 1931). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Otto Brower. A silver gelatin photograph, 8 x 10 in. City Streets (Paramount Pictures, 1931). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Rouben Mamoulian. Approximately 20 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., some with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso. I Take This Woman (Paramount Pictures, 1931). Starring Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard. Director Marion Gering. Approximately 20 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., some with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso, one featuring Gary Cooper. Devil and the Deep (Paramount Pictures, 1932). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Marion Gering. Approximately 75 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., some with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso, one featuring Gary Cooper and Charles Laughton together. If I Had a Million (Paramount Pictures, 1932). Starring Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields. Directors James Cruze, J. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch. Approximately 75 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., some with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso. One Sunday Afternoon (Paramount Pictures, 1933). Starring Gary Cooper, Fay Wray. Director Stephen Roberts. Approximately 75 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., many with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso. Alice in Wonderland (Paramount Pictures, 1933). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Norman Z. McLeod. Approximately 50 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., many with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso. Now and Forever (aka Honor Bright) (Paramount Pictures, 1934). Starring Gary Cooper, Shirley Temple, Carole Lombard. Director Henry Hathaway. Approximately 35 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., almost all with location descriptions handwritten in ink to border, many with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso, 2 featuring Gary Cooper. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Paramount Pictures, 1935). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Henry Hathaway. Approximately 100 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., almost all with location descriptions handwritten in ink to border, many with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso. Peter Ibbetson (Paramount Pictures, 1935). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Henry Hathaway. Approximately 80 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., almost all with location descriptions handwritten in ink to border, some with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso. The General Died at Dawn (Paramount Pictures, 1936). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Lewis Milestone. Approximately 130 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., many with location descriptions handwritten in ink to border, some with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso. The Plainsman (Paramount Pictures, 1936). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Cecil B. deMille. Approximately 150 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., most with location descriptions handwritten in ink to border, some with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso. Souls at Sea (Paramount Pictures, 1937). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Henry Hathaway. Approximately 90 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., almost all with location descriptions handwritten in ink to border, many with photographer 'A.E. Freudeman' stamped to verso, including 6 scene stills with Gary Cooper and George Raft. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Paramount Pictures, 1938). Starring Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert. Director Ernst Lubitsch. Approximately 150 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., almost all with location descriptions handwritten in ink to border, some with 'Set Dressing (36)' stamped to verso. North West Mounted Police (Paramount Pictures, 1940). Starring Gary Cooper. Director Cecil B. deMille. A group of 85 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., some with location descriptions handwritten in ink to border, some with 'Interior Decorating (36)' or 'Please Return to Construction Office' stamped to verso, one featuring Gary Cooper. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paramount Pictures, 1941). Starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman. Director Sam Wood. Approximately 80 silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 in., most with location descriptions handwritten in ink to border, most with 'Interior Decorating (36)' stamped to verso, one featuring Gary Cooper and one featuring Cooper and Ingrid Bergman together. Together with 30 smaller photos, 4 x 5 in., one featuring Gary Cooper. Gary Cooper had a style all his own; he could dress like a dandy, a cowboy, or a gentleman, and he seemed to embody all those characters. As a leading man, he was powerful and yet vulnerable, with pouty lips and an 'aw shucks' demeanor that charmed the public. He began at Paramount Pictures in silent films and worked his way up to superstar status, working with directors such as Ernst Lubitsch, Henry Hathaway, Cecil B. deMille, and Rouben Mamoulian, conquering every genre including comedy, Western, and drama. He truly could do it all and looked gorgeous doing it! Cooper's career had very few hills and valleys; the public loved him and he was a popular leading man until his untimely death in 1961. 8 x 10 in. or smaller Footnotes: The collection of Paramount Pictures set stills that is being offered in this auction is an extraordinary historical archive from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. Sets stills were taken for continuity purposes and to document the arrangements of the sets and props, etc, during the making of a film. Not only does this collection photographically document the changes in filmmaking through the decades, it details the changing styles of architecture, interior design (the Art Deco sets from the 1930s are astonishingly beautiful), fashion, cars, and more. In the cases of location shooting, one can see the evolution of various southern California towns a For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing