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America's Boy -- Jackie Cooper

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Uploaded by on Jan 22, 2010

If you've seen SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (1978), you surely remember the character of Perry White, the tough-as-nails editor of The Daily Planet. Played pitch-perfect by actor Jackie Cooper, he's one of the comedic highlights of the movie. I want the name of this flying whatchamacallit to go with the Daily Planet like bacon and eggs! Franks and beans! Death and taxes! Politics and corruption!

Cooper delivers his one-liners in a Preston Sturges staccato that helps give the 1970s film a pleasant 1930s gloss, bridging the gap between comic book and film. But if, like me, you were just a kid when you saw SUPERMAN, you may not have known that here was an actor who, fifty years earlier, was one of the most popular and recognizable in the world, courtesy of a little film called THE CHAMP.
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  • "This dame's nuts!" Love it! R.I.P Jackie Cooper

  • Jackie, we'll miss you. RIP. 1922-2011

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  • soooo cute!!!!

  • I had no idea Jackie Cooper died recently. RIP Jackie, you were always the cigar chomping, larger than life, Daily Planet Editor "Perry White".

    You will be missed very dearly

  • I miss you Jackie :( You will never leave our hearts or minds.

  • RIP Jackie :(

  • RIP Jackie Cooper.

  • Check out little rascals love buisness pt2 when he is busting chubbys balls.That is classic funny!

  • R.I.P. Jackie Cooper. Thanks for all the laughs.

  • Amazing how little Cooper changed over the years. Most people look far diiferent as adults than they did as children, but not him!

  • Rip Jackie

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