“We should kill the sonofabitch ourselves.”
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Merian C. Cooper
Merian Caldwell Cooper was an American filmmaker, actor, producer and military aviator. In film, his most famous work was the 1933 movie King Kong, and he is credited as co-inventor of the Cinerama film projection process. He was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1952 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. He was a passionate anti-communist.
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culture · American filmmaker (1893–1973) · screenwriter · film producer · film director · actor · fighter pilot · military officer · aircraft pilot · journalist · film actor · cinematographer · also Merian C. Cooper, Merian Caldwell Cooper, Merian Cooper, Merian Coldwell Cooper, Frank Mosher, Cooper
Born 24 October 1893 · Died 21 April 1973 · Q446427
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2025· 2 entries
Moviefone: Merian C. Cooper
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Moviefone: Merian C. Cooper, le dernier conquérant - Where to Watch
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2021· 1 entry
Film historian Ray Morton stated in an interview that, after looking through the films shooting schedule, he found no evidence the sequence was ever filmed
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1973· 1 entry
Died 1973-04-21.
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1971· 1 entry
Before running out of funds and leasing the site to the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism in May 1972
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1963· 1 entry
Cooper argued unsuccessfully that he should own the rights to King Kong; later in 1976, judges ruled that Cooper's estate owned the rights to King Kong outside the movie and its sequel
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
And received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960
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1949· 1 entry
Mighty Joe Young won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, which was presented to Willis O'Brien, the man responsible for the film's special effects
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1946· 1 entry
And produced such notable films as Wagon Master (1950), Ford's Fort Apache (1948), and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
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1942· 1 entry
A CATF raid consisting of 12 B-25s and 7 P-40s, led by Colonel Cooper, successfully bombed the Kowloon Docks at Hong Kong
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1937· 1 entry
Due to disagreements over the film Stagecoach
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1935· 1 entry
And Pioneer Pictures merged with it in June 1936
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1929· 1 entry
And 1930 to work on the script for King Kong
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1928· 1 entry
Cooper regretted releasing certain details about "Nina" (probably Marjorie Crosby-Słomczyńska) with whom he had relations outside of wedlock
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1927· 2 entries
“s Sons in New York (the Knickerbocker Press) in 1927. However, in 1928, Cooper regretted releasing certain details about”
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Cooper was one of 19 prominent Americans who were given the title of "Honorary Scouts" by the Boy Scouts of America for "
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1924· 1 entry
Cooper joined Schoedsack and Marguerite Harrison who had embarked on an expedition that would be turned into the film Grass (1925)
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1921· 1 entry
Cooper got a job working the night shift at The New York Times
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1920· 1 entry
His plane was shot down, and he spent nearly nine months in a Soviet prisoner of war camp where the writer Isaac Babel interviewed him
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1916· 2 entries
Cooper worked for the Minneapolis Daily News as a reporter, where he met Delos Lovelace
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Cooper joined the Georgia National Guard to help chase Pancho Villa in Mexico
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1893· 2 entries
Born 1893-10-24.
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“s estate owned the rights to King Kong outside the movie and its sequel. Selznick left RKO before the release of King Kong, and Cooper served as production chief from 1933 to 1934 with Pandro S. Berman as his executive assistant. In the 2005 remake of King Kong, upon learning that Fay Wray was not available because she was making a film at RKO, Carl Denham (Jack Black) replies,”
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