Talk:Merian C. Cooper

Should this be in here?
"Cooper kept a copy and Dagmar kept a copy (which now belongs to me)" Should this be in here?

The entire section relating to Cooper's autobiography is sloppily written and lacking in suitable academic tone. 65.6.138.68 19:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

At the very least, it should clarify who "me" is.

Who is "Nina"?

Presumably "Nina" was Cooper's Polish paramour who bore him a son, later called Maciej Słomczyński. This point is crying for clarification. 65.6.138.68 19:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * No kidding. This article is a disgrace and needs major rewriting. Languagehat (talk) 16:44, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Family News
The pedigree presented here was prepared without the aid of the appropriate editorial tools so that some of the relationships are unclear (for example the vital dates for Cooper's wife, Dorothy Jordan). The pedigree uses the term "Living" in a confusing manner, is "LIVING JORDAN" to be taken as a claim that Dorothy Jordan is yet alive? (She died in 1988, BTW) One of the twin sons is named as "Living Cooper". This is really atrocious. [still living]

The whole section "From Count to King Kong" (which is badly titled for a website with pretensions to academic detachment-title is exactly factually accurate !) ought to be removed as irrelevant to the subject. Pedigrees ought to be given only where such information is relevant to the historical significance of the personality in question, such as a king whose entire position rests on his ancestry. Merian Cooper's life and accomplishments would have been significant even if he had been raised in a foundling home without any documented ancestry. 65.6.138.68 19:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC) Merian Cooper has twin sons both of whom were Colonels in the USAF. And hopefully they will add some more info etc

see their line of descent decried above as follows:

Count to King Kong
+ Elizabeth LEGARE + Jean Francois GIGNILLIAT b: 17 MAY 1657 d: 1699 + Mary Magdalen DUPRE b: 15 NOV 1711 d: ab 1776 + Charlotte PEPPER b: 17 NOV 1748 d: 9 SEP 1803 + Col John COOPER b: 1751 d: 1816 Aiken, SC Major in Rev War, Col in War of 1812 b: 1797 McIntosh Co, Ga (moved to Fla) d: 1857 + Anne/Annie Frances GARNIER b: 1807 SC d: 1884 b: 13 Aug 1827 Cuba d: 9 Jan 1895 Jacksonville,Fla + Hesse M. JACKSON b: 1828/1829 Ga d: Bef 1870 + Mary C. CALDWELL b: Jan 1862 Tenn b: 23 Oct 1893 Jacksonville, Fla d: 21 Apr 1973 Cal + Dorothy JORDAN (decd 1988)
 * 1 Count Jacques LESERRURIER
 * 2 Susanne LESERRURIER b: 1673 d: bef 1721
 * 3 John GIGNILLIAT b: 1700 d: 25 MAR 1750
 * 4 James GIGNILLIAT b: 30 JUL 1746 d: 12 MAR 1794
 * 5 Elizabeth GIGNILLIAT
 * son of Richard Cooper of n. Darien, Ga & Hester Merian
 * 6 Charles Marian COOPER
 * 7 Charles Philip COOPER, Atty
 * 8 John C. COOPER b: Jan 1861 Ga
 * 9 Merian C. COOPER, Col, Gen, Exec RKO, Director - KING Kong
 * 10 Richard M Cooper (twin), Col, USAF Retired
 * 10 Chas G Cooper (twin), Col, USMC Retired
 * 10 Sister

/s/ line by LE C GM/PS User:76.245.67.21

footenote- the above line includes many substantial, planter families of historic note.

Anti-Semitism and VM
I took the liberty of browsing through the book which allegedly mentions Cooper's antisemitism and stripping him of the VM. This is the book, same edition (Cambridge 2001), with a query on the name Cooper. 5 results found, not one Cooper is this Cooper. What's more, page 204 doesn't mention any Cooper at all. Sir Wolf (talk) 10:08, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

WW1
There is a character account in the book 1918 The Year of

Communism
Communist spies were quite real.Jimjilin (talk) 19:43, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Removed information

 * The following sentence was removed because it did not have any supporting source. If anyone finds a source for it, though, feel free to add it back in.


 * In January 1919, while on special duty with the American Red Cross in France, he located the grave of Lieutenant Frank Luke, Jr., America's second-highest-scoring ace of World War I, near the village of Murvaux.Amgisseman(BYU) (talk) 22:05, 11 July 2016 (UTC)


 * I removed the following paragraph because it is a large portion of information that is unsourced. If anyone finds the source, please add it back in~


 * On April 4 and 11, 2007, Turner Classic Movies aired six films that had been produced by Cooper at RKO but had been out of distribution for over 50 years. According to TCM host Robert Osborne, Cooper had agreed to a legal settlement with RKO in 1946, after accusing RKO of not having given him all the money due him from his RKO producer's contract in the 1930s. The settlement gave Cooper complete ownership of six RKO titles—Rafter Romance (1933) with Ginger Rogers, Double Harness (1933) with Ann Harding and William Powell, The Right to Romance (1933), One Man's Journey (1933) with Lionel Barrymore, Living on Love (1937), and A Man to Remember (1938). According to an interview with a retired RKO executive that was used as a TCM promo for the premiere, Cooper allowed the films to be shown in 1955–56 in a limited re-release, and only in New York City.Amgisseman(BYU) (talk) 19:05, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

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WWII activity etal
There is nothing about his WWII activity. He rejoined the Army Air Corps prior to our involvement in the war. He was among the group for the aborted China based attack in coordination with the Doolittle raid. This placed him in association with Chennault with whom he became executive officer and planned many actions including the successful Hong Kong raid. A comment against Stillwell’s opposition to air support caused him to be added to Marshal’s black book and his promotion to Brigadier General until Marshal becoming Secretary of State. He received commendations from other commands such as in New Guinea. Lack of stating the importance of his early films Grass and Chang, the latter considered a national treasure by Thailand. This biography has many points besides this that needs to be clarified. Such as his controlled crash of his DH4 in WWI. He could have parachuted and originally thought his observer was dead. Once realizing that he was still alive, Cooper withstood burned hands in that landing and both men survived. He refused the Silver Star that was later offered for his action. (the DH4 was notorious for burning through enemy fire) 73.202.137.39 (talk) 17:24, 13 March 2022 (UTC)