Cora Sue Collins is DEAD to me!
[quote]She spent time alone with Greta Garbo, played William Powell and Myrna Loy's daughter and had Lana Turner for a babysitter before leaving acting at age 18. The charming child actress of the 1930s and ’40s worked alongside such legends as Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Irene Dunne and Merle Oberon during her brief but sensational career, has died Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills of complications from a stroke. She was 98.
[quote]Collins played younger versions of Colbert in Torch Singer (1933), Frances Dee in The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932) and Keep ‘Em Rolling (1934), Loretta Young in Caravan (1934), Oberon in The Dark Angel (1935) and Lynn Bari in Blood and Sand (1941).
[quote]“I must have the most common face in the world,” she said in a 2019 interview. “I played either the most famous actresses of the ’30s as a child or their child. They made me up to look like everybody.”
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 29, 2025 8:31 PM
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She would be a legend if she had slapped or kicked Joan Crawford really hard
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 29, 2025 6:09 PM
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Never heard of her until now, plus she acted with all the 1930s movie stars.
To retire from acting at 18 years& live until 98 years old-that is awesome life.
Cora Sue saved her $$$& married well 3 times.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 29, 2025 6:11 PM
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For a split second I read the thread title as "Susan Collins is DEAD to me!"
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 29, 2025 6:14 PM
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^^^I would agree with that too& cheered a little until I saw the Sue^^^
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 29, 2025 6:27 PM
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^^^ I meant Cora-really want her dead^^^
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 29, 2025 6:29 PM
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Something tells me news outlets won't lead with a b&w childhood photo of Susan Collins when she goes.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 29, 2025 6:30 PM
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She slept her way to the top
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 29, 2025 6:39 PM
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If you scroll to the bottom of the article, you'll see her at a Jewish industry event of sorts back in 2012, and her face looked incredible for 85.
The jewellery and the blouse are another matter.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 29, 2025 7:24 PM
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Seems like she was a great lady.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 29, 2025 7:32 PM
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Her cousin Joan must be so devastated.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 29, 2025 7:35 PM
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This awful! What happened?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | April 29, 2025 7:43 PM
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She had a hot ass but couldn't live forever.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | April 29, 2025 7:45 PM
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R11 I follow someone on Facebook who knew her fairly well. Cora wanted to get another facelift in the last few years but didn't like the anesthesia part of the procedure. I loved that, even though she'd been retired for decades. She'd gotten some good work, and she looked great for her age. RIP Cora Sue.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 29, 2025 7:57 PM
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It's interesting to look at her IMDB page -- her first movie was The Unexpected Father (1932) with Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts. Alison Skipworth was also in the movie. Skipworth was born in 1863 and the overlap between the two lifespans is something that always intrigues me. It's like Margaret O'Brien (still with us!) who worked with Harry Davenport (b. 1866) and C. Aubrey Smith (b. 1863). I doubt the child Margaret quizzed them about life in the theater in the 1870s when they began their careers, but is equally intriguing.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | April 29, 2025 8:10 PM
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If you live long enough, your lifetime will most likely take place in two centuries. So I pity those born in the first decade of any century, they'll never know that crazy feeling of being born in another century.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | April 29, 2025 8:18 PM
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She was a hot lass but she couldn't last forever.
(She's such a cloyingly cutesy moppet in QUEEN CHRISTINA, whenever I watch it I have to fast forward through her scene).
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | April 29, 2025 8:21 PM
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TCM will have its tribute montage playing by 7:00 p.m. tonight - scored with a slow, quiet version of "Hooray for Hollywood."
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | April 29, 2025 8:31 PM
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