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1/24/2011

Sargent Shriver meets Jackie Cooper and cast of "Superman III"

Last week American politician and humanitarian Sargent Shriver passed away at the age of 95.(ABC News | People) He and his late wife Eunice (sister of John F. Kennedy)  often  hosted special charity benefits for the Special Olympics, and in 1983, the entire cast of Superman III was invited (source: a 1983 documentary on the making of Superman III, which you can watch here or below in this post) .

Sargent Shriver loved
Jackie Cooper
In the first few minutes of this special, you can see the Shrivers greet producer Alexander Salkind (Shriver calls him the "original Superman" ha ha), director Richard Lester, Richard Pryor and Jackie Cooper, whom Shriver is ecstatic to meet. He tells the former 1930s child star that he's been a fan of his since his earliest movies.

Though many critics will argue the film itself is less than super, this documentary I think is interesting (I'm a sucker for any "making of" film).



More about Sargent Shriver at http://www.sargentshriver.org/