You describe Cook's appearance in this film so beautifully, I almost feel like I've watched it!
Thank you so much! I wish TCM would run it instead of whatever they are doing for their days of Oscar.
(I really wish I could have seen him in Ah, Wilderness!)
Absolutely a time machine credit. I can't believe he was replaced in both film transfers by Eric Linden. And I even like Eric Linden!
Am I correct that there's never been a book-length biography of Cook? Because I sure would like to read one.
I've never heard of one and same!
[edit] The most information I have ever seen about Cook in the same place is not a critical piece, but a lengthy profile which ran in New West in 1980; it is not officially available on the Internet Archive, but much of it can be read thanks to the search function and if it's reasonably accurate, he did have a neat as well as an artistically interesting life. He had a clear fund of stories in that I have seen three variations now on the one about Submarine Patrol (1938) and his thumb, but I had never heard the one his wife tells where they busted up after twenty-five years of marriage, never actually moved out of the same house, and eventually remarried, like real-life screwball, or the one he tells about walking out on a contract dispute and not working in films for a year and a half, which even allowing for artistic license does match a gap in his filmography. I don't know why there's never been a biography. It's not like people don't post about him every Noirvember, or randomly throughout the year.
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Thank you so much! I wish TCM would run it instead of whatever they are doing for their days of Oscar.
(I really wish I could have seen him in Ah, Wilderness!)
Absolutely a time machine credit. I can't believe he was replaced in both film transfers by Eric Linden. And I even like Eric Linden!
Am I correct that there's never been a book-length biography of Cook? Because I sure would like to read one.
I've never heard of one and same!
[edit] The most information I have ever seen about Cook in the same place is not a critical piece, but a lengthy profile which ran in New West in 1980; it is not officially available on the Internet Archive, but much of it can be read thanks to the search function and if it's reasonably accurate, he did have a neat as well as an artistically interesting life. He had a clear fund of stories in that I have seen three variations now on the one about Submarine Patrol (1938) and his thumb, but I had never heard the one his wife tells where they busted up after twenty-five years of marriage, never actually moved out of the same house, and eventually remarried, like real-life screwball, or the one he tells about walking out on a contract dispute and not working in films for a year and a half, which even allowing for artistic license does match a gap in his filmography. I don't know why there's never been a biography. It's not like people don't post about him every Noirvember, or randomly throughout the year.