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On December 24, 1963, he married heiress [[Gloria Vanderbilt]], becoming her fourth husband. The photogenic couple frequently appeared on the national "best-dressed" list.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/06/archives/wyatt-cooper-dies-screenplay-writer-coauthor-of-chapman-report-and.html|title=Wyatt Cooper Dies; Screenplay Writer|author=Kleiman, Dena|first=|date=6 January 1978|work=New York Times|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> They had two sons: Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965-1988), who |
On December 24, 1963, he married heiress [[Gloria Vanderbilt]], becoming her fourth husband. The photogenic couple frequently appeared on the national "best-dressed" list.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/01/06/archives/wyatt-cooper-dies-screenplay-writer-coauthor-of-chapman-report-and.html|title=Wyatt Cooper Dies; Screenplay Writer|author=Kleiman, Dena|first=|date=6 January 1978|work=New York Times|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> They had two sons: Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965-1988), who died by suicide,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://people.com/celebrity/how-anderson-cooper-and-gloria-vanderbilt-coped-after-carter-coopers-suicide/|title=How Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt Coped After the Suicide of Their Beloved Brother and Son, Carter Cooper|website=PEOPLE.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-29}}</ref> and [[Anderson Cooper]] (b. 1967), who became a prominent [[CNN]] anchor. |
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Cooper wrote in his 1975 memoir, "It is in the family that we learn almost all we ever know of loving. In my sons' youth, their promise, their possibilities, my stake in immortality is invested." He died in [[Manhattan, New York City]] on January 5, 1978, at age 50, during open heart surgery, after having a heart attack the previous December. |
Cooper wrote in his 1975 memoir, "It is in the family that we learn almost all we ever know of loving. In my sons' youth, their promise, their possibilities, my stake in immortality is invested." He died in [[Manhattan, New York City]] on January 5, 1978, at age 50, during open heart surgery, after having a heart attack the previous December. |
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Wyatt Emory Cooper | |
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 Cooper in 1970 | |
| Born | September 1, 1927 Quitman, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | January 5, 1978 (aged 50) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Education | UCLA |
| Occupation(s) | author and screenwriter |
| Years active | 1952–1961 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2, including Anderson Cooper |
Wyatt Emory Cooper (September 1, 1927 – January 5, 1978) was an American author, screenwriter, and actor. He was the fourth husband of Vanderbilt heiress and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt and the father of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. As an actor, he was usually billed as Wyatt Cooper.[1][2]
Life and career
Cooper was born in the small town of Quitman, Mississippi, outside of Meridian, Mississippi,[3] the son of Rixie Jane Annie (née Anderson) and Emmet Debro Cooper.[citation needed] Cooper was from a poor family with deep Southern roots, and later moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, as a young child. He graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he majored in theater arts and began a career in acting.[4]
In his twenties, Cooper moved to New York City to pursue acting. When Cooper was 26, he appeared on Broadway in the cast of The Strong Are Lonely, a drama that ran for a week at the Broadhurst Theatre in the fall of 1953. Cooper also wrote stories and plays.
In his thirties, Cooper lived in Los Angeles, attended both UCLA and UC Berkeley, and worked as a screenwriter. While residing in West Hollywood, then an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, Cooper lived near Dorothy Parker and her husband Alan Campbell. A close friendship developed, and a year after Parker's death in 1967, Cooper published an incisive and widely read profile in Esquire magazine, titled, "Whatever You Think Dorothy Parker Was Like, She Wasn't".[5] Cooper moved to Manhattan in the early 1960s, and worked there as a magazine editor.
Personal life
On December 24, 1963, he married heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, becoming her fourth husband. The photogenic couple frequently appeared on the national "best-dressed" list.[4] They had two sons: Carter Vanderbilt Cooper (1965-1988), who died by suicide,[6] and Anderson Cooper (b. 1967), who became a prominent CNN anchor.
Cooper wrote in his 1975 memoir, "It is in the family that we learn almost all we ever know of loving. In my sons' youth, their promise, their possibilities, my stake in immortality is invested." He died in Manhattan, New York City on January 5, 1978, at age 50, during open heart surgery, after having a heart attack the previous December.
References
- ^ Wyatt Cooper at IBDB
- ^ Wyatt Cooper at IMDb
- ^ Barnwell, Marion (1997). A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives. University Press of Mississippi.
- ^ a b Kleiman, Dena (January 6, 1978). "Wyatt Cooper Dies; Screenplay Writer". New York Times.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Cooper, Wyatt. "Whatever You Think Dorothy Parker Was Like, She Wasn't." Esquire. July 1968. pp. 56–61, 110–14
- ^ "How Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt Coped After the Suicide of Their Beloved Brother and Son, Carter Cooper". PEOPLE.com. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
Bibliography
- Families: A Memoir and a Celebration (Harper & Row, 1975) ISBN 0-06-010857-6
External links
- Wyatt Emory Cooper at IMDb (as Wyatt Cooper)
- Wyatt Emory Cooper at the Internet Broadway Database (as Wyatt Cooper)
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- 1927 births
- 1978 deaths
- American male stage actors
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- American male screenwriters
- Male actors from Mississippi
- People from Panola County, Mississippi
- People from Meridian, Mississippi
- Writers from New Orleans
- Writers from New York City
- Vanderbilt family
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- American memoirists
- American male non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American male actors
- Anderson Cooper
- 20th-century American writers
- People from Quitman, Mississippi
- Screenwriters from New York (state)
- Screenwriters from Mississippi