Shopworn Angel - 1928

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This film costarred Nancy Carroll and also included the first spoken dialogue by Gary in a film. When he and Nancy’s character get married, we hear them say their wedding vows.

This film still survives but the sound portion is lost.

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In the late 1920s, talkies took Hollywood by storm. So fast was the transformation that during the production of Richard Wallace's The Shopworn Angel (in 1928), costars Gary Cooper and Nancy Carroll were suddenly informed that the producers planned to convert the silent film into a talkie. "I studied my script containing this new thing called dialogue," Cooper recalled many years later, "until I was letter perfect." The dialogue came after fifty-nine minutes and forty-five seconds of silence, in the hour-long film's final wedding scene:
Cooper: "I do."
Carroll: "I do."

"Based on those four words," Cooper later recalled, "the picture was released as a talkie!"

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I'm so envious of all those actresses who co-starred with him, I'm sure they all felt the luckiest woman on earth to be loved by him, if only in a movie!

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Gary Cooper Ad Fay Wray-Shop Worn Angel

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