Description:
In 1920, Merian C. Cooper was a member of volunteer of the American Kosciuszko Squadron that supported the Polish army in the war with Soviet Russia, where he met best friend and producing partner Ernest B. Schoedsack. On 26 July 1920, his plane was shot down, and he spent nearly nine months in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. He escaped just before the war was over. He was decorated by Marshall Jozef Pilsudski with the highest military decorations: Virtuti Military. He had a successful career in the military and in the movie business.
Birthday
October 24, 1893
Born In
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Alternative names
Merian Cooper
Height
173 cm
Trivia
Being the producer of King Kong (1933), he personally removed a
scene in which four sailors, after Kong shook them off a
log bridge, fall into a ravine and are eaten alive by giant
spiders because, when previewed in January 1933, audience members
either fled the theater in terror or talked about the ghastly scene during the
entire movie.
Quotes
[about why the spider scene in King Kong (1933) was removed] It
stopped the picture cold, so the next day back at the studio, I took it
out myself.
Nickname
Frank Mosher
