{"id":1457,"date":"2015-07-03T19:48:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T02:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2015-07-03T20:01:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T03:01:35","slug":"all-hail-cora-sue-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/all-hail-cora-sue-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hail Cora Sue Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cora Sue Collins is something we don&#8217;t have enough of anymore: a bonafide 1930s movie star. She made dozens of movies with major performers of the era&#8211;oftentimes playing the same characters as them. In <em>Queen Christina<\/em> (1933), for instance, Garbo was Christina and Cora Sue was Christina as a child.<\/p>\n<p>In 1936, Cora Sue was in <em>The Devil&#8217;s Squadron<\/em> for Columbia. Among her promotional duties was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/corasue\/\">posing with Scrappy products in a number of photographs<\/a>, such as this one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasuecolors.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1457]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasuecolors.jpg?resize=341%2C254\" alt=\"corasuecolors\" width=\"341\" height=\"254\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasuecolors.jpg?w=683&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasuecolors.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasuecolors.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasuecolors.jpg?resize=400%2C298&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In March of this year, TCM held an event in Los Angeles. At an unofficial get-together for attendees at the Roosevelt Hotel, Cora Sue spoke about her career in Hollywood. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/125166715\">watch it here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/willmckinley.wordpress.com\/2015\/04\/16\/cora-sue-who-the-1930s-child-star-you-dont-know-but-should\/\">read a nice write-up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video is great entertainment. Cora Sue is a spunky, funny storyteller&#8211;and still very much recognizable as the little girl showing off Scrappy merchandise in 79-year-old photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasue2015.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1457]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasue2015.jpg?resize=360%2C390\" alt=\"corasue2015\" width=\"360\" height=\"390\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasue2015.jpg?w=444&amp;ssl=1 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasue2015.jpg?resize=278%2C300&amp;ssl=1 278w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasue2015.jpg?resize=139%2C150&amp;ssl=1 139w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/corasue2015.jpg?resize=400%2C432&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to you, Cora Sue&#8211;you&#8217;re a lifetime member of Friends of Scrappy for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cora Sue Collins is something we don&#8217;t have enough of anymore: a bonafide 1930s movie star. She made dozens of movies with major performers of the era&#8211;oftentimes playing the same characters as them. In Queen Christina (1933), for instance, Garbo was Christina and Cora Sue was Christina as a child. In 1936, Cora Sue was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/all-hail-cora-sue-collins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All Hail Cora Sue Collins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-nv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}