Robert Osborne will serve as the evening's master of ceremonies, introducing clips from numerous films and moderating conversation with several of Cooper's friends and co-stars. All participants are subject to availability. He started his acting career as a cowboy extra in Westerns, but he didn't stay an extra for long. The exhibition of Cooper memorabilia will open to the public on May 4 and continue at the Academy through July 8.
Admission is free.
Included will be some 80 photographs, as well as correspondence, posters, lobby cards, props, costume sketches, Cooper's saddle and chaps, and one of his three Oscar statuettes. A variety of other materials will also be featured. Several of the screening nights will include special personal appearances. For its New York-area members, the Academy will reprise the Tribute to Cooper at the Museum of Modern Art on May 31. An additional Cooper Centennial program will also be presented at the American Museum of the Moving Image on June 2.