Living dangerously : the adventures of Merian C. Cooper, creator of King Kong

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Living dangerously : the adventures of Merian C. Cooper, creator of King Kong

Title remainder

the adventures of Merian C. Cooper, creator of King Kong

Statement of responsibility

Mark Cotta Vaz

Creator

• Vaz, Mark Cotta

Subject

• Cooper, Merian C
• Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Explorer, war hero, filmmaker, and cinema pioneer Merian C. Cooper--the adventurer who created King Kong--was truly larger than life. "Pictures cannot be made from an executive's desk," "Coop" declared, and so he went to the far corners of the globe, with a motion picture camera in tow, in an era when those corners were truly unknown, untamed, and unforgiving. Cooper was one of the first bomber pilots in World War I. He then turned his attention to producing documentary films that chronicled his encounters with savage warriors, man-eating tigers, nomadic tribes, and elephant stampedes. He was the first to team Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers, arranged Katharine Hepburn's screen test, collaborated with John Ford on Hollywood's greatest Westerns, and introduced Cinerama, the original "virtual reality." He returned to military service during World War II, flying missions into the heart of enemy territory in China.--From publisher description

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 791.4302/3/092
• B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PN1998.3.C6697

LC item number

V38 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography