You may want to read Patricia Neal’s biographies and autobiographies here:
Not so much to admire, unless filandering, infidelity and forced abortions are your thing.
When you said he wasn’t much of a man, you meant his Hollywood morals, not his general manliness.
You could have been more clear.
‘Not so much to admire, unless filandering, infidelity and forced abortions are your thing”
All my life I loved Gary Cooper then I saw an interview by Patricia Neal. It broke my heart that an actor that always portrayed such noble characters was such a creep.