Cora Sue Collins

Cora Sue Collins
Born	Cora Sue Collins (1927-04-19) April 19, 1927 Beckley, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Child actress
Years active	1932-1945

Cora Sue Collins (born April 19, 1927) is an American former child actress.

Career

Cora Sue Collins was born on April 19, 1927 in Beckley, West Virginia. In 1932, she made her acting debut in The Unexpected Father at the age of 5.^[1]^[2]

She continued to appear in numerous films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, playing alongside notable stars such as Greta Garbo, Bette Davis, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Ginger Rogers and William Powell.

Cora Sue Collins made her last movie in 1945, when she retired from show business. In total, she had 47 credits to her name. She later married a rich rancher from Nevada.^[3]

Filmography

Smilin' Through (1932) as Young Kathleen
Silver Dollar (1932) as Maryanne Silver-Dollar Echo Honeymoon Martin - as a Girl
They Just Had to Get Married (1933) as Rosalie
Picture Snatcher (1933) as Jerry's little girl
Jennie Gerhardt (1933) as Vesta at age 6
Torch Singer (1933) as Sally at 5 years
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933) as Farmer's daughter
The Sin of Nora Moran (1933) as Nora Moran, as a child
Black Moon (1934) as Nancy Lane
Treasure Island (1934) as Young girl at the inn
The Scarlet Letter (1934) as Pearl
The Spectacle Maker (1934) as The little princess
Caravan (1934) as Latzi, as a child
Evelyn Prentice (1934) as Dorothy Prentice
Little Men (1934) as Daisy
Naughty Marietta (1935) as Felice
Public Hero No. 1 (1935) as Little girl
Mad Love (1935) Gogol's Lame Child Patient
Anna Karenina (1935) as Tania
The Dark Angel (1935) as Kitty, as a child
Two Sinners (1935) as Sally Pym
Harmony Lane (1935) as Marian Foster
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) as Little girl
Magnificent Obsession (1935) as Ruth
The Harvester (1936) as Naomi Jameson
Devil's Squadron (1936) as Mary
Three Married Men (1936) as Sue Cary
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) as Amy Lawrence
Stop, Look and Love (1939) as Dora Haller
All This, and Heaven Too (1940) as Louise de Rham
Blood and Sand (1941) as Encarnacion, as a child
Get Hep to Love (1942) as Elaine Sterling
Johnny Doughboy (1942) as Cora Sue
Youth on Trial (1945) as Cam Chandler
Roughly Speaking (1945) as Elinor Randall, as a girl
Week-End at the Waldorf (1945) as Jane Rand

References

↑ "Tiny actress called genius". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. August 12, 1935. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
↑ "She cries her way into movies". The Free Lance-Star. March 31, 1932. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
↑ "Cora Sue Collins". Allmovie. Retrieved 15 November 2013.

External links

Cora Sue Collins at the Internet Movie Database