Ayn Rand's Fountainhead is showing on TCM at 2:00 AM next monday....
One of Hollywoods shlock and melodramic movies of all time...
TCM gives it 3 stars but I think that is mainly because of the cast.
If you want to see how a 14 year old kid would sketch out characters, well, this ones for you.
It's hard to believe that Gary Cooper would make such a movie. Cooper was a conservative of long standing in Hollywood but he was also one of the few stars that stood up for the black balled performers and writers. The best known example was his refusal to walk away from High Noon, well I'll let the write up from IMDB spell it out in detail.
Though he appeared as a "friendly witness" before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947, he carefully avoided naming any people he suspected of having Communist sympathies within the Hollywood community. He later starred in High Noon (1952), a western that was an allegory for blacklisting in Hollywood, and strongly defended blacklisted screenwriter Carl Foreman from attacks by the right-wing Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. Foreman later credited Cooper as the only major star in Hollywood who tried to help him. His mistress Patricia Neal, who did consider herself a liberal, said Gary was "conservative" but "you couldn't call him right-wing". Cooper showed a sense of humor by asking John Wayne to collect his Oscar for him in 1953, after Wayne had criticized High Noon (1952) as "anti-American".
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000011/bio
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