Cora Sue Collins, a Busy Child Actress in the 1930s, Dies at 98

Cora Sue Collins, who, like a child with a pipe and with a shameless floor, Achart, in the early 1930s, appeared in front of stars from the list A like Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy and Merle Oberon, but who interrupted her career after April 27 to the harassed by a Dome Dome Dome-Hills by A. Hills, California, she was 98 years old.

His daughter, Susie McKay Krieser, said the cause were complications of a stroke.

Miss Collins made about 50 photos of about 13 years, including 11 in 1934 and another 11 in 1935. It was one of the Galaxy of Child Stars of the time, a list that included Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, but did not become.

In his first film, the 1932 comedy “The unexpected father”, performed a waif whose newly rich adoptive father (Simmerville) hires a nurse (Zasu Pitts) to take care of her. Praise for Cora Sue, 4 years old, arrived quickly.

A critic of Richmond News leader in Virginia labeled it as a “baby star” with “incredible capacity for action and an attraction that enters her heart.” Kansas City Journal wrote: “The girl Little Collins goes with the image.”

Miss Collins played Garbo as a child in “Queen Christina”, the acclaimed 1933 film about the Swedish monarch. At that time, he told a newspaper that Garbo “was very kind and I really liked my new teeth.”

His many other roles include Claudette Jacket’s daughter in “Torch Song” (1933); Myrna Loy and William Powell daughter in “Evelyn Prentice” (1934); And the youngest beings of Norma Shearer in “Smilin” Through “(1932), Frances Dee in” The strange case of Clara Deane “(1932) and Mrs. Oberon in” The Dark Angel “(1935).

“I must have a very common face,” said Miss Collins in a 2014 interview with the online magazine Film Talk. She added: “I play everyone as a child. I think they could make me look like anyone. However, I hope they are paying me for anything.

She developed a friendship with Garbo, who was on the set of “Queen Christina”, continued when Miss Collins was chosen as her niece in “Anna Karenina” (1935), and lasted her visits as adults to the houses of Garbo in New York and Paris.

“Until she died, I called her to Miss Garbo and called me Cora Sue, which was correct,” Miss Collins told Film Talk.

Cora Sue Collins was born on April 19, 1927 in Beckley, W.VA., his father, the young Comodoro Collins, and his mother, Clyde (Richardson) Collins, separated when Cora Sue was 3 years old (after his mother discovered that his father had given his secretary a mink coat for Christmas for Christmas) and then divided. His mother took Cora Sue and his older sister, Madge, Hollywood by train.

In a story that Miss Collins called “the truth honest to God”, she He said that his mother and sister were heading to register his sister at school when a huge car stopped to the subject.

“A woman jumped from the car and said:” Excuse me, would you like to put your little girl in photos? “The woman said:” Go up to me, there is a great casting at this time in Universal. “”

They delayed going to the studio for a few hours until Madge had his leg and shot. Miss Collins was chosen in “The unexpected father.”

A 1935 profile of Miss Collins at the Oakland Tribune reported that she had an intellectual coefficient of 151 and that the most popular Hollywood actor had voted for her classmates. The author of the profile, Marion Simms, was with the Collinsses one morning when actor Pat O’Brien, who had the friend and woman of Scholars Sue, called “Uncle Pat”, stopped to take her to school.

Miss Collins also worked with James Cagney in “Picture Snatcher” (1933), Bette Davis in “All This, and Heaven Too” (1940), Colleen Moore in “The Scarlet Letter” (1934) and Sylvia Sidney in “Jennie Gerhardt” (1933).

When Miss Collins aged, her papers decreased. Before his 17th birthday, he said, he was a victim or harassment when Harry Ruskin, an MGM screenwriter who he saw as a father figure, sacrificed an important role if Slyd sleeps with him. She rejected it, began to cry and left her office.

“I would have given my right arm to play that role,” a consortium of film historians and endusiants told Film Masters, in 2024.

He reported Mr. Ruskin’s behavior to Louis B. Mayer, the powerful Head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, where she was a contract player at that time. But, as she recalled, he said: “You’ll get used to, honey.” Shortly after, he threatened to prevent him from working in movies.

“Mr. Mayer, that is my sincere desire,” he said, he said, adding: “It was the best decision of my life.”

At the request of Mr. Mayer, he appeared in one more movie, “Week-End the Waldorf” (1945), whose cast also included Ginger Rogers and Lana Turner.

Brown of Miss Collins to Ivan Stauffer, James McKay and Jim Cox ended in divorce. His marriage to Harry was born Jr., film owner in Arizona, lasted 33 years and ended with his death in 2002. He became known as the duration of Susie was born and after his marriage.

“It’s fun to be a housewife in Phoenix,” he told Film Talk. “I like it.”

In addition to Mrs. Krieser, whose father was Mr. McKay, a son survived, Harry was born III; A stepdaughter, Teresa is born Cabebe; Five grandchildren; and six great -grandchildren.

Seven decades after making “the unexpected father”, Miss Collins recalled a scene from that film that involved a smuggler.

“I was pushed in a baby race with all these bottles of alcohol under me,” Talk Talk told Film. “They put real bottles there; I think they are full of bathing gin or something, and it hurt like hell, but I was a very obedient child and I didn’t tell him that it was uncomfortable that he was!”