Paramount PicturesThe film’s director, Norman Taurog, was also Cooper’s uncle.
Cooper wrote in his autobiography that the whole exchange was traumatizing for him: “I could visualize my dog, bloody from that one awful shot.
I began sobbing so hysterically that it was almost too much for the scene.
He was nine years old.
To this day, he’s still the youngest Best Actor nominee in the history of the Academy Awards.
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