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Producer, Merian C. Cooper, was born Merian Coldwell Cooper on Oct 24, 1893 in Jacksonville, FL. Cooper died at the age of 79 on Apr 21, 1973 in San Diego, CA .

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. However he won one Honorary Award in 1952 for his many innovations and contributions to the art of motion pictures .

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Cooper had a bizarre dream about a giant ape that was destroying New York City and recorded it when he woke up. This was the basis for the classic King Kong (1933), which he developed and produced.

Being the producer of King Kong (1933), he personally removed a scene in which four sailors, after Kong shook them off a log bridge, fall into a ravine and are eaten alive by giant spiders because, when previewed in January 1933, audience members either fled the theater in terror or talked about the ghastly scene during the entire movie.

Entered the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in the Class of 1915. He left in his senior year. In 1916, he joined the Georgia National Guard to help chase Pancho Villa in Mexico.

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