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Gary Cooper in "Good Sam" (1948)

Sam Clayton (Gary Cooper) is too good for his own good. A sermon by Reverend Daniels (Ray Collins) persuades him to help others in every way he can, including his wife's, Lu (Ann Sheridan), good-for-nothing brother, Claude (Dick Ross), who's been living with them rent-free for six months, and their neighbors the Butlers (Matt Moore and Netta Packer), who need a car for a vacation when theirs breaks down. Sam is a department store manager whose boss, H.C. Borden (Edmund Lowe), wants him to sell more and socialize less. Sam's a shoulder for clerk Shirley Mae (Joan Lorring) to cry on when her romance breaks up. He also gives a $5,000 loan, without his wife's knowledge, to Mr. and Mrs. Adams (Todd Karns and Carol Stevens), who need it to save a gas station they bought. Lu is fed up with Sam's generosity, particularly when he ends up paying for the Butlers' car repairs, then letting the mechanic come over for home-cooked meals. The last straw for Lu comes when she learns they have a chance to put a down payment on a new house, except Sam has lent their nest egg to the Adams. Sam is unhappy, too. He's annoyed with the Butlers, who have crashed his car and can't pay to fix it. He also wants Claude to move out. Shirley Mae's troubles come to his door after she overdoses on pills. Though the Adamses surprise him with a check for $6,000 to repay their loan, Sam uses some of the money to pay for the annual Christmas charity dinner after he is robbed of the money he collected from employees and the bank refuses to give him a loan. He ends up in a bar, drinking copiously. A Salvation Army marching band playing Christmas songs brings him back home. There the bank manager promises that he will receive the loan he asked for, and Borden surprises him with a promotion to vice-president of the store. A 1948 American Black & White romantic comedy-drama film produced & directed by Leo McCarey, screenplay by Ken Englund, story by McCarey and John D. Klorer, cinematography by George Barnes, starring Gary Cooper, Ann Sheridan, Ray Collins, Edmund Lowe, Joan Lorring, Clinton Sundberg, Minerva Urecal, Louise Beavers, Ruth Roman, Dick Ross, Lora Lee Michel and Bobby Dolan Jr. Ann Sheridan was borrowed from Warner Bros. for this picture. The band that accompanies Sam home was made up from 25 students from various Los Angeles high schools. The Clayton's car is a 1938 Plymouth Deluxe sedan. Their neighbor's car is a 1939 Buick Special Touring sedan. Interior scenes of the church were modeled after the interior of the city's St. James Episcopal Church. The Rev. J. Herbert Smith, pastor of All Saints' Episcopal Church of Beverly Hills, was a technical advisor. Produced by McCarey's production company, Rainbow Productions. It received mixed reviews, with critics alternately liking and disliking the film based on whether they viewed it as a serious story or a spoof. McCarey shot two different endings and let remarks by preview audiences determine which one to use. The outcome of the discarded ending is not known. "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 25, 1950 with Ann Sheridan reprising her film role. "The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 7, 1949 with Gary Cooper reprising his film role. The film was one of the top-grossing films of 1948 (#23), grossing $2.95 million, and revived the career of Gary Cooper with him signing a significant contract with Warner Bros. Sinclair Lewis was asked to work on the script but refused, stating: "[A] man who tried to lead in our times the life of an apostle would be an idiot and would be considered by others to be one". Filming was interrupted by Cooper's appearance as a friendly witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee on October 23, 1947. The New York Times called it, "a mischievous sort of satire," and pointing out that the main character, who behaves like a saint towards everyone, should not be taken seriously. “The principal danger in this picture is that people will take it seriously as a nobly intended tribute to the Good Samaritan type. And that is understandable, for the story is such a cliché that it may not be easily distinguished as an outright travesty. ... But if you'll realize at the outset that the hero of this comic tale is not supposed to be taken as a proper example at all but is really something of a lampoon—a spoof of a popular movie type—then you'll certainly get more pleasure out of the antics than if you don't." Praising Cooper's performance as a spoof of "every do-gooder that he has played since Mr. Deeds, plus a couple of memorable do-gooders that Jimmy Stewart has played ... As a matter of fact, it is the lovely and willful sarcasm in (Ann Sheridan's) approach—the non-Pollyannaism—that keys the whole purpose of the film". And called staging of the interactions between the main character and his wife, and with others, "bright, explosive—and absurd".