Ernest Hemingway & Gary Cooper

The Story of a Friendship

Ernest & Gary. Image: Forbes

A Farewell to Arms was the first novel by Ernest Hemingway to be filmed, released by Paramount in 1932. Hemingway described it as an “abomination”, although there was something about its star, Gary Cooper.

Eight years later, in 1940, Hemingway heavily promoted Gary Cooper to play Robert Jordan in the upcoming production of For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway…