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Does anyone have any info or have a hat styled after the one Gary Cooper wore in For Whom The Bell Tolls ?
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I find that look extremely swanky. Bravo. :eusa_clapdeanglen said:There was a film about an architect starring gary Cooper which I caught on TCM, back when I got my first hat and when I was playing with bash styles, and in that film, the title of which I cannot recall, there was a reverse shot of the fedora he was wearing, a rear view, that clearly showed a diamond bash, which is where I got the idea for the original diamond bashes I had in the grey and Open Road fedoras, later returning them C-crowns.
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I didn't know it was called a diamond bash. I did notice, in RBH's still from the movie he and Hemmingway saw, that Cooper doesn't have the hat on straight, or it's pinched off center. Probably not on straight. I mention the other film because someone here in some thread indicated that actors in this period of films, like Jimmy Stewart, often wore their own hats in films, and the same hat in several films. I wonder if that was the case here. I wish I could remeber the title of the Cooper film I referenced.
dean
deanglen said:There was a film about an architect starring gary Cooper which I caught on TCM...I wish I could remeber the title of the Cooper film I referenced.
dean
Baggers said:Are you referring to Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead?
And speaking of Coop's wardrobe in For Whom the Bell Tolls, did anyone notice his sheepskin jacket? Looks pretty much like an Army Air Corps D-1 to me.
Cheers!
deanglen said:...Some architect....in a scene where he was in an excavation site talking to that blonde dame whose father ends up hiring Cooper to design a building.
OldSkoolFrat said:Too bad his buildings don't look like Peter Keating's designs
deanglen said:Bingo! It was in a scene where he was in an excavation site talking to that blonde dame whose father ends up hiring Cooper to design a building. I swear his fedora had a diamond bash.
dean
deanglen said:I did notice, in RBH's still from the movie he and Hemmingway saw, that Cooper doesn't have the hat on straight, or it's pinched off center. Probably not on straight.
dean
Baggers said:Perhaps. But while many of us try to do the turn by placing the front pinch off center so it still looks "centered" when we wear it, evidently Cooper simply turned the hat and let the pinch drift off to the side along with it.
Perhaps we're seeing the 1040s equivalent of the modern day mania for wearing baseball caps turned to side (or completely reversed, blechh!). Puts the whole thing in a new light, doesn't it? Gary Cooper, the Golden Era predecessor to the rapper!
Cheers!
Baggers said:Oh man, you gotta pay better attention when you watch movies. That "blonde dame" was Patricia Neal playing Dominique Francon, the love interest/conflict between Howard Roark (Cooper), and her boss and eventual husband Gail Wynand (Raymond Massey), the guy you referred to as her "father."
I love to watch that film, if for nothing more than the photography. Ayn Rand wrote the script, but unfortunately the story suffered in the translation and Cooper's monologue in the trial scene seemed to lack conviction ("I'm speaking the words, but I have no idea what I'm saying").
Still, very cool hat. I'm a real fan of imperfect, casual and personalized bashes.
Cheers!