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Actor: Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper won Best Actor for Sergeant York and High Noon, and built a career on doing conspicuously less than anyone around him, decades before that became a recognized screen technique.

High Noon is the definitive performance, a marshal abandoned by a town, played almost entirely in silence and worry across a running time matching the story’s real duration.

He was a major star for three decades, in Mr Deeds Goes to Town, Ball of Fire and The Pride of the Yankees, and worked constantly.

He named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee in general terms while declining to identify individuals, which is a more equivocal record than either side has claimed.

Meet John Doe (1941) film poster

Barbara Stanwyck

Meet John Doe (1941)

Meet John Doe is Frank Capra's 1941 American political drama about a newspaper columnist who invents a fictional everyman who threatens to commit suicide on Christmas Eve in protest against social injustice, and who must then find a real person…

High Noon (1952) film poster

High Noon (1952)

Fred Zinnemann's 1952 western shot in real time. The clock is the antagonist.

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Wings (1927)

Wings is the first film to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It is also the only silent film to win that award.

Sergeant York (1941) film poster

Sergeant York (1941)

Sergeant York is a propaganda film that happens to also be a great film. The film came out in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, and it pushed America toward war.