Aaron Tracy

She was obviously pretty shaken up all around, he says.

She had come to New York primarily to get away from an unfortunate romance.

So what should Dahl do?

What would you do?

Walk away?

Problem is, he just can't shake the feeling that this is his one chance for happiness and stability.

He puts on an all-out charm offensive, the same way he went over William Stevenson and Charles Marsh and C.S.

Forrester and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

But it's just not working on Neal.

If you read Neal's memoir, where she's shockingly vulnerable and open, it's actually a great read.

She talks constantly about how devastated she was over the Cooper breakup.

The number of times she mentions him is pretty astonishing considering she was with someone else, namely Dahl, ten times longer than she was with Cooper.

Her relationship with Cooper has enough highs and lows to be its own tragic love story podcast.

That's Cooper in my favorite of his movies, Ernst Lubitsch's Bluebeard's Eighth Wife.

if only Cooper took his character's advice to heart.

I think that's immoral.

In the movie, Cooper keeps falling in and out of love, but he does the kind of weirdly honest and maybe even noble thing.

When he meets someone new, he divorces his current wife and marries her.

When the film begins, he's been married and divorced seven times.

In real life, though, Cooper stayed married during his affairs, which is even messier.