Talk:Merian C. Cooper

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"Cooper kept a copy and Dagmar kept a copy (which now belongs to me)"

Should this be in here?

The entire section relating to Cooper's autobiography is sloppily written and lacking in suitable academic tone. 65.6.138.68 19:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

At the very least, it should clarify who "me" is.

Who is "Nina"?

Presumably "Nina" was Cooper's Polish paramour who bore him a son, later called Maciej Słomczyński. This point is crying for clarification. 65.6.138.68 19:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Family News

The pedigree presented here was prepared without the aid of the appropriate editorial tools so that some of the relationships are unclear (for example the vital dates for Cooper's wife, Dorothy Jordan). The pedigree uses the term "Living" in a confusing manner, is "LIVING JORDAN" to be taken as a claim that Dorothy Jordan is yet alive? (She died in 1988, BTW) One of the twin sons is named as "Living Cooper". This is really atrocious. [still living]

The whole section "From Count to King Kong" (which is badly titled for a website with pretensions to academic detachment-title is exactly factually accurate !) ought to be removed as irrelevant to the subject. Pedigrees ought to be given only where such information is relevant to the historical significance of the personality in question, such as a king whose entire position rests on his ancestry. Merian Cooper's life and accomplishments would have been significant even if he had been raised in a foundling home without any documented ancestry. 65.6.138.68 19:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Merian Cooper has twin sons both of whom were Colonels in the USAF. And hopefully they will add some more info etc

see their line of descent decried above as follows:

[edit] Count to King Kong

• 1 Count Jacques LESERRURIER

+ Elizabeth LEGARE

• 2 Susanne LESERRURIER b: 1673 d: bef 1721

+ Jean Francois GIGNILLIAT b: 17 MAY 1657 d: 1699

• 3 John GIGNILLIAT b: 1700 d: 25 MAR 1750

+ Mary Magdalen DUPRE b: 15 NOV 1711 d: ab 1776

• 4 James GIGNILLIAT b: 30 JUL 1746 d: 12 MAR 1794

+ Charlotte PEPPER b: 17 NOV 1748 d: 9 SEP 1803

• 5 Elizabeth GIGNILLIAT

+ Col John COOPER b: 1751 d: 1816 Aiken, SC Major in Rev War, Col in War of 1812

• • son of Richard Cooper of n. Darien, Ga & Hester Merian
• 6 Charles Marian COOPER

b: 1797 McIntosh Co, Ga (moved to Fla) d: 1857 + Anne/Annie Frances GARNIER b: 1807 SC d: 1884

• 7 Charles Philip COOPER , Atty

b: 13 Aug 1827 Cuba d: 9 Jan 1895 Jacksonville,Fla + Hesse M. JACKSON b: 1828/1829 Ga d: Bef 1870

• 8 John C. COOPER b: Jan 1861 Ga

+ Mary C. CALDWELL b: Jan 1862 Tenn

• 9 Merian C. COOPER, Col, Gen, Exec RKO, Director - KING Kong

b: 23 Oct 1893 Jacksonville, Fla d: 21 Apr 1973 Cal + LIVING JORDAN (software calls unk living; decd 1988)

• 10 Richard M Cooper (twin) , Col, USAF Retired
• 10 Living Cooper (twin), Col, USAF Retired

/s/ line by LE C GM/PS User:76.245.67.21

footenote- the above line includes many substantial, planter families of historic note.