Cora Sue Collins

Cora Sue Collins

Birth : 1927-04-19, Beckley, West Virginia, USA

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cora Sue Collins (born April 19, 1927) is an American former child actress. 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 five. Collins continued to appear in numerous films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, such as Queen Christina , Anna Karenina, and All This, and Heaven Too. She made her last movie in 1945, when she retired from show business at the age of 18. In total, she has 47 credits to her name.

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Cora Sue Collins

Movies

Week-End at the Waldorf
Jane Rand
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Youth on Trial
Cam Chandler
A female juvenile court judge learns that her own daughter is one of the town delinquents in this minor low-budget potboiler.
Johnny Doughboy
Cora Sue Collins
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
Get Hep to Love
Elaine Sterling
Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 4
Self
Fourth film in the Hedda Hopper series.
Blood and Sand
Encarnacion (as a child)
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
All This, and Heaven Too
Louise de Rham (uncredited)
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.
The Greener Hills
Miller Daughter
An MGM Miniature about an incurable optimist who is always giving up on his job or project to try something new, while his wife and kids humor him, thinking that some day he may make that million he always talks about. He takes over a peanut farm, but immediately starts off on a bee-hive project, leaving his wife and kids to run the peanut farm.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Amy Lawrence
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Three Married Men
Sue Cary
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-deceased Mr. Mullins. Despite familial pressure to the contrary, Jennie and Peter proceed with their wedding. Just before the wedding, Peter receives advice from his soon-to-be brothers-in-law, Jeff and Bill Mullins. Both men warn him about the drudgery of marriage, ply him with drink, and destroy his fantasy of an ideal, romantic marriage.
Devil's Squadron
Mary
In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
The Harvester
Naomi Jameson
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
Magnificent Obsession
Ruth, the Child in the Park
A playboy tries to redeem himself after his careless behavior causes a great man's death.
Mary Burns, Fugitive
Little girl
A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.
Harmony Lane
Marian Foster
The life and loves of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success through his decline, degradation, and death from alcoholism.
Two Sinners
Sally Pym
An ex-convict gets released after shooting a fellow who made a play for his wife. When he meets Sleeper, his life takes a change for the better, but along with her comes the boisterous little Collins, for whom she is a governess.
The Dark Angel
Kitty as a Child
Kitty Vane, Alan Trent, and Gerald Shannon have been inseparable friends since childhood. Kitty has always known she would marry one of them, but has waited until the beginning of World War I before finally choosing Alan. Gerald graciously gives them his blessing. Then, Gerald and Alan go to war. Angered over a misunderstanding involving Alan and Kitty, Gerald sends Alan on a dangerous mission that will change all their lives forever.
Anna Karenina
Tania
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
Mad Love
Crippled Girl (Uncredited)
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
Public Hero Number 1
Little Girl (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.
Without Children
Carol Cole as a Child
Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadvertently leads to him having an affair with a rich older woman. When his wife Sue discovers the infidelity, she divorces him and takes away their two children. It turns out this was Phil's intent all along - so he could marry Sue. With David now living in Europe, the two children grow up spoiled and self-centered under Phil and Sue's neglectful care. When one of them is shot while roughhousing, David realizes he must own up to his responsibilities as a father...but it may be too late to make a difference in his children's lives...
Naughty Marietta
Felice (uncredited)
A French princess flees an arranged marriage and sails for New Orleans, where she is rescued from pirates by a dashing mercenary.
Caravan
Young Latzi (Uncredited)
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
The World Accuses
'Pat' Collins
When a middle aged woman accepts a job at a day care center she comes across the child she gave up early in life.
Evelyn Prentice
Dorothy Prentice
A criminal lawyer's wife faces blackmail when she has an affair.
Elinor Norton
Betty, little girl
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
The Spectacle Maker
The Little Princess
A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.
The Scarlet Letter
Pearl
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Black Moon
Nancy Lane
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
As the Earth Turns
Marie
Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.
Little Men
Daisy
The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.
Queen Christina
Christina as a Child (uncredited)
Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.
The Sin of Nora Moran
Nora Moran, as a Child
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal the truth and save her own life, if only it would not damage the lives, careers and reputations of those whom she loves.
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Farmer's Daughter (uncredited)
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
Torch Singer
Sally, Age 5
When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she then searches for the child she gave up.
Mary Stevens, M.D.
Jane Simmons (uncredited)
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
Picture Snatcher
Jerry's Little Girl (uncredited)
An ex-con uses his street smarts to become a successful photojournalist.
The Mysterious Rider
Jo-Jo Foster
The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at night to become the Phantom.
Smilin' Through
Young Kathleen
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carteret spends three decades in seclusion, mostly communing with the spirit of Moonyeen, until he learns that her niece, Kathleen, has become an orphan. He adopts and raises the child as his own but is alarmed when, as a young woman, she falls in love with the son of Moonyeen's murderer.
The Strange Case of Clara Deane
Nancy Deane (as a child)
A young dress designer marries an insurance agent. They soon have a daughter, but what the wife doesn't know is that her husband is actually a criminal...
The Unexpected Father
Pudge
A wealthy bachelor hires a pretty young nanny to look after his adopted daughter. Sparks quickly fly between the two, much to the dismay of the man's calculating, money-hungry fiancée.