Veronica Balfe

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The Cooper couple in 1933
Gary and Veronica Cooper's grave in New York

Veronica "Rocky" Balfe , widowed Cooper and married Converse (born May 27, 1913 in Brooklyn , New York City , † February 16, 2000 in Southampton , New York ), was an American sports shooter . She also appeared as an actress under the stage name Sandra Shaw .

Life

Veronica Balfe's father Harry R. Balfe (1891–1965) was a grocery broker and was a member of the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange . Her mother Veronica Gibbons (1892-1958) was the sister of Cedric Gibbons , her grandfather the entrepreneur Harry Balfe . Veronica Balfe received her education at the Bennett School for Girls , now Bennett College in New York . The parents divorced early and the mother took the daughters to Paris .

In the early 1930s she had a brief film career. In the US feature film King Kong and the White Woman (1933) she was seen as one of the victims of King Kong . In the film comedy The Gay Nighties (1933) she took on the role of the somnambulistic countess.

Veronica Balfe married actor Gary Cooper on December 15, 1933 . The marriage resulted in their daughter Maria Veronica in 1937 , who married Byron Janis in 1966 .

She was also active as an athlete in the 1930s and was enthusiastic about diving , surfing , swimming , golf and tennis . As a marksman, she was recognized as the California State Women's Skeet Champion in the skeet discipline .

After Gary Cooper's death in 1961, she donated his collection of horse saddles and rifles to the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma and returned to New York. In mid-1964 she married John Marquis Converse, a plastic surgeon and professor at the "Lawrence D. Bell" chair at New York University Medical Center, in mid-1964.

The devout Catholic was a lifelong supporter of the Abbey of Regina Laudis in the US state of Connecticut .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Veronica Cooper Converse Widow of Gary Cooper, 86th The New York Times , March 7, 2000, accessed June 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Maria Cooper. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 24, 2015 .
  3. ^ A New Race of Mermaids (report on Veronica and daughter Marie Balfe); in: Harper's Bazaar , May 1958. (Photographs by Louise Dahl-Wolfe )
  4. ^ Philippe Garnier: Décès de Rocky Cooper. Figure marquante de la jet-set new-yorkaise, elle fut l'épouse de Gary Cooper durant trente ans. Liberation , March 10, 2000.
  5. ↑ Blonde Widow of Gary Cooper Weds Doctor , June 30, 1964.
  6. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10185739
personal data
SURNAME Balfe, Veronica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shaw, Sandra (pseudonym); Rocky (nickname); Cooper, Veronica; Converse, Veronica; Converse, Veronica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American marksman and actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2000
Place of death Southampton , New York