Operator 13

Operator 13

Directed by Richard Boleslawski. 85 mins. (1934)

Gary Cooper – Capt. Jack Gailliard

During the American Civil War, a Union spy disguised as an enslaved woman infiltrates Confederate territory, but her mission is jeopardized when she falls in love with a Southern officer loyal to the opposing cause.

Also starring Marion Davies, Jean Parker, Katherine Alexander, and Ted Healy.

The only screen pairing of Marion Davies and Gary Cooper, the film was made at Davies’s request while Cooper was on loan from Paramount. The Shackleford mansion interiors were later reused as Twelve Oaks in Gone with the Wind (1939).