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May 3, 2022 · At age 47, Cooper co-starred with 21-year-old Patricia Neal in The Fountainhead. They had a romatic affair, during which Neal had become pregnant. Cooper, married to Veronica Balfe at the time, asked Neal to get an abortion. An out-of-wedlock baby was catastrophic for an acting career, and so Neal went through with the procedure.
Yet, it is impossible to avoid the subject of the other woman in his life, Patricia Neal, who even aborted Cooper’s baby when he refused to divorce Rocky and marry her.
While being with Dahl was often miserable, it still had to be better than the days with Gary Cooper. The worst moment in that relationship came when Neal learned she became pregnant with Cooper's child. She thought that a child would finally make Gary Cooper leave his wife for her—but she was so, terribly wrong.
May 1, 2022 · Gary Cooper’s daughter, Maria Cooper Janis, realized how fine an actor her father was while watching him film a scene from 1952’s High Noon.
Aug 9, 2010 · Fortuitously, even though Neal was three months pregnant when stricken, the baby she was carrying was not harmed. Lucy, another daughter, was born a normal child.
Oct 9, 2021 · “You don’t give in.” Gary Cooper: The Private Life of a Hollywood Hero. Although born in a Kentucky coal-mining town, Patricia found her calling at an early age. “She always loved being the...
Apr 25, 2015 · When Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal met by chance, and for the last time, in New York in October 1955, she confessed: «You broke my heart, Gary. You really did .» He tried to explain and justify himself by saying: « You know, baby, I couldn't have hurt Maria for the world .»
