The production of The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) offers a great deal of history, not the least of which is the moment when the world met Gary Cooper, an instant star if ever there was one. The Cooper story is reminiscent of Rashomon, with numerous versions of how the actor came to work on the picture, yet all accounts agree that he got the second lead (behind Ronald Colman) apparently by accident. More important, he steals the film away from Colman by doing next to nothing. You can meas


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