Word: cinemoppet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Jackie Cooper, 27, onetime cinemoppet (Skippy, The Champ); by June Home Cooper, 30, onetime cinema starlet; after five years of marriage, one child ; in Los Angeles...
...Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien, 12, who managed last February to troupe gamely through a few forced smiles when mother Gladys married Bandleader Don Sylvio, now graciously ceded center stage to mother. "It was all wrong from the beginning," declared Gladys, announcing plans for annulment. She was "angry and disturbed" over stories that Margaret had talked her into anything. Said Don: "Some people have an aversion to child actresses, but I haven't. Nor do I have a personal aversion to Margaret, except when she interferes with my marriage . . . I'm the middleman all the way through...
...Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien, 12, who specializes in tearjerkers, played a real-life scene with all the stops out. Her widowed mother, Gladys, announced her engagement to an orchestra leader named Don Sylvio. Margaret objected with howls: on hearing the news, mother reported, Margaret "turned on the tears" and kept them at full flood for two days. Finally calmed down, Margaret read a new set of lines to the press like the trouper that she is: "I had hoped mother would wait until I am 14 and grown up. But since she wants to marry...
Born. To Jane Withers, 22, onetime No. 1 cinemoppet, and William Moss, 27, film producer: their first child, a daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Wendy Leigh. Weight...
Critics struggled for just the right words. One thought that Lionel Barrymore's etchings (Purdy's Basin and San Pedro) had a "professional touch." The gallery director felt obliged to say that Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien "has definite promise. . . . There's an oriental simplicity about her watercolor, Autumn Leaves, which many artists work for years to capture." One critic summed up: "I hate to hurt their feelings, but almost all of the work ... is fairly...