{"id":5763,"date":"2025-04-30T20:07:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T03:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T03:07:22","slug":"cora-sue-collins-has-left-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/30\/cora-sue-collins-has-left-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Cora Sue Collins Has Left Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cora-Sue-Collins-with-Scrappy-Big-Little-Book.jpeg?ssl=1\" rel=\"lightbox[5763]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"774\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cora-Sue-Collins-with-Scrappy-Big-Little-Book.jpeg?resize=774%2C1000&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cora Sue Collins with Sceappy book\" class=\"wp-image-5765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cora-Sue-Collins-with-Scrappy-Big-Little-Book.jpeg?w=774&amp;ssl=1 774w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cora-Sue-Collins-with-Scrappy-Big-Little-Book.jpeg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cora-Sue-Collins-with-Scrappy-Big-Little-Book.jpeg?resize=768%2C992&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cora-Sue-Collins-with-Scrappy-Big-Little-Book.jpeg?resize=120%2C155&amp;ssl=1 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even here on Scrappyland, it feels impudent to overly fixate on Cora Sue Collins\u2019 connection to Scrappy. The former child star, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/cora-sue-collins-dead-child-actress-mgm-1236202858\/\">died on Sunday at 98<\/a>, had a remarkable career in the 1930s and early 1940s. She played the little-girl version of characters played by Garbo and Norma Shearer and the daughter of Claudette Colbert in one movie and William Powell and Myrna Loy in another. After making more than 40 films starting at age five, she gave it all up at 18 and had a quiet, private life thereafter, though in recent years she enjoyed a bit of a rediscovery and clearly took pleasure in <a href=\"https:\/\/earlysoundguy.wordpress.com\/2021\/04\/19\/an-interview-with-cora-sue-collins\/\">reminiscing about her Hollywood career<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, this <em>is<\/em> Scrappyland, and so I mark Collins\u2019 passing here for a reason so minor it didn\u2019t make it into any of her obits as far as I know. In 1936, she appeared in a Columbia drama about test pilots, <em>The Devil\u2019s Squadron<\/em>. (She didn\u2019t play a test pilot\u2014she played a little girl named Mary.) The studio was quick to commandeer its child stars in service to promotion of Scrappy. And so it got Cora Sue to pose for photos with several then-current Scrappy products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I\u2019ve added these publicity stills to the Scrappyland collection over the years, I\u2019ve shared them in these posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/corasue\/\">The Great Cora Sue Collins Mystery<\/a>\u201d (2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/kidstars\/\">More Kid Stars and Scrappy<\/a>\u201d (2005)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/all-hail-cora-sue-collins\/\">All Hail Cora Sue Collins<\/a>\u201d (2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/19\/scrappy-tie-ups-galore\/\">Scrappy Tie-Ups Galore<\/a>\u201d (2019)  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s a lot of material to squeeze out of a handful of photos apparently taken in one day\u2014Cora Sue is wearing the same dress in all of them\u2014about 89 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Scrappy\u2019s centennial fast approaching\u2014he turns 100 in July 2031\u2014we long ago lost most of the people who were involved with producing his cartoons when they were adults. Even Bobby Winckler, who was a boy when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/28\/the-boy-who-was-scrappy\/\">voiced Scrappy<\/a>, died more than 35 years ago. Edith Fellows, who was a Columbia contract player as a child and may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/18\/scrappy-and-edith-fellows-together-again\/\">posed for more photos with Scrappy merchandise<\/a> than anyone else, passed away in 2011. A couple of other kid stars whose photos I\u2019ve posted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/29\/the-fabulous-world-of-scrappy-neckwear\/\">Dickie Walters<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/28\/yet-another-kid-who-loved-scrappy\/\">Jackie Moran<\/a>, are also deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s possible\u2014likely, even\u2014that Cora Sue Collins was the very last person alive with a professional Scrappy affiliation dating from when Columbia was still making Scrappy cartoons. And now she\u2019s gone. Whether it mattered to her\u2014whether she even remembered it\u2014I\u2019m not sure. But I was very glad that at least one link to the Golden Age of Scrappy was still with us well into the 21st century. It\u2019s sad to think those days are over. Godspeed, Cora Sue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even here on Scrappyland, it feels impudent to overly fixate on Cora Sue Collins\u2019 connection to Scrappy. The former child star, who died on Sunday at 98, had a remarkable career in the 1930s and early 1940s. She played the little-girl version of characters played by Garbo and Norma Shearer and the daughter of Claudette &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/30\/cora-sue-collins-has-left-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cora Sue Collins Has Left Us<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D9Zl-1uX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763","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=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5768,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scrappyland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}