Posted on 05/04/2011 4:34:08 PM PDT by PROCON
I just caught him in a picture called “Dinky” on TCM yesterday. He had a lot of personality.
“Hennesy” is one of my all-time favorites! Unfortunately, I don’t think it ever made it to VHS or DVD.
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Condolences to family and friends of Jackie Cooper.
He’s finally with Miss Crabtree.
RIP
Apparently he was great friends with Judy Garland when they were teenagers. He used to tell a story about how he helped Judy out for a while by picking her up to go out on a “date” because her mother saw him as suitable and the studio like them being seen together. They would get into whatever club and she would take off with some older guy that nobody wanted her to be with.
Speaking of Miss Crabtree (stage name June Marlowe), there was a scene in one of the Our Gang episodes where she kissed Jackie flush on the lips for about 5 seconds (in the original,uncut collections).
I was always amazed at that.
I wonder if that scene would have been left standing today?
Lots of fun times.
R.I.P.
I read an autobiography by him (and about him, of course) a few years ago. I always liked him because he was about the only child star (particularly the “Our Gang” group) that did not go crazy when he got older.
Unfortunately, it was obvious from the book that he was just as crazy as the others, but it was in more socially acceptable ways. He did not do stuff that put him in the tabloids. However, he hurt the people nearest him and (from the book) he seemed to not understand that he was hurting them. He walked away from each of his first two wives. Same way with his kids.
Good luck Mr. Cooper, wherever you are now.
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