JACK COOGAN—SIGNED 1929 PHOTO—JACKIE’s Dad—Arbuckle/Keaton/Chaplin Film-Died ‘35

Description: JACK COOGANJACKIE COOGAN SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED 1929 PHOTOInscribed to fellow performersduring their vaudeville tour Coogan (1887-1935), who starred in vaudeville, initially appeared —concurrently — in films with his son Jackie, until he quickly transitioned into managing his now-superstar son's finances and producing his films. ACTING CREDITS Chaplin Purviance Carl Miller Albert Austin The Kid (1921) Pickpocket Guest Devil Arbuckle Keaton Molly Malone The Hayseed (1919) Constable Arbuckle Keaton St John Molly Malone Wm Collier Jr Back Stage (1919) Eccentric Dancer Arbuckle St John Molly Malone Monte Collins Alice Lake Keaton stunts A Desert Hero (1919) Variety Death Report May 8, 1935 Films’ Two Tragedies Two major accidents, 48 hours apart, auto and plane, resulted in four fatalities of picture people. The Kansas City plane crackup which took the lives of four laymen and seriously injured six Paramount people, one of whom, Mrs. William Kaplan, subsequently succumbed, shocked the film business. The auto accident occurred Saturday (4) outside of San Diego, neap the Mexican border, and took thA lives of Jack Coogan, Sr., 49; Trent (Junior) Durkin, 17; Robert J. Horner, 25, scenarist and writer, and Charles Jones, 40, foreman of the Coogan ranch. The Trancontinental & Western Air plane crackup near Kansas City Monday (6) morning, at around 6 o'clock injured six in the advance guard of a Paramount film production party bound for Annapolis on the 'Annapolis Farewell' picture.' Group Included Richard Wallace. director; Paul Wing, company manager of the unit and father of Toby Wing, Paramount contract player; William Kaplan, Paramount production exec, aide to Louis D. Lighten, producer of this picture; his wife, who never came out of an emergency operation; C. G. (Pat) Drew, Par electrician, and Henry Sharpe, cameraman with the company. Among the five air fatalities, including the two pilots, were a younff woman and U. S, Senator Bronson M. Cutting from New Mexico, besides Mrs. Kaplan. The other Par people's Injuries are grave. Wallace suffered broken ribs and a possible concussion. He has an excellent chance to recover, Paul Wing Is critically Injured, his chest crushed. C. G. Drew, also critically hurt. Wing and Drew were given blood transfusions Mon (Contlnued on page 75) day night, the second for Wing, and are improving. William Kapan, broken leg; Mrs. Kaplan, whose broken back and partial paralysis necessitated the emergency operation which subsequently proved fatal. Sharpe, superficial Injurles. Young Coogan Escapes In the Coast auto crackup, Jackle Coogan, Jr., now 19, owes his escape through a request to ride in the rumble seat, stating he couldn't hear Inside the coupe, due to an old head injury. It was a new car, belonging to Jackle, which his father was driving. Accident was reported caused on the Imperial Valley-San Diego drive when a speeding car in the opposite direction, with two women occupants, caused the film party to swerve off the road. Coogan, Jr., was sitting in the rumble seat beside his pal, Junlor Durkin, and through being thrown clear his life was spared. Toby Wing, whose repurted engagement to young Coogan had been offically denied by his mother, stated that both she and her sister, Patricia, had a premonition about their father not flying with the Par •party. She also was to have been in the Coogan party, but delayed by a production assignment. Funeral services for John Coogan were held yesterday (Tuesday) at Hollywood Rosary and high mass at Church of the Good Shepherd, with burial in Calvary cemetery in Los Angeles. Junior Durkin rites also May 7 with interment in Forest Lawn, Glendale, Calif. Jackle Coogan left the hospital May 7 to attend both funerals. Robert Horner services on May 9. Now Production Setup Paramount recruited a new production unit for 'Annapolis Farewell' following reports from Macon, Mo., that those in plane crash would be unable to proceed. Al Hall takes over direction, Jack Voshell be-: comes unit business manager, Ewing Scott unit director, and Teddy Tetzlaff heading the camera crew. Contingent left May 6 for Annapolis. Sir Guy Standing, Tom Brown, Richard Cromwell and Ben Boker pull out May 9 by train with the remaining production crew and camera staff as originally scheduled. Standing, a former army fier, had refused to fly. Within an hour after news was received at the Paramount studio of the tragedy, Louis D. Lighton, producer of the picture, flew to Missourl in a chartered plane Later in the day a plane carrying. relatives and frlends, including Mrs. Wallace and David Epstein, Wallace's biz rep, sped for the scene. TWA 1s flying all relatives to the scene of the accident gratls. Whether balked in travel plan by premonition or otherwise, Myrna Loy, Leland Hayward and Chic Sale cancelled reservations on the ill fated plane a few hours before the takeoft. All took the identical plane route the following day. John Coogan's Career Coogan, Sr., born in Syracuse, N. Y., was a vaudeville song and dance man most of his lIfe. In the early 1900's he replaced one of the Dillon Bros, who had died and teamed with John Dillon under the Dillon Bros. name. Later he Joined Eddle Cox and after that became the partner of Eddie Parks, now Morton and Parks. Coogan and Parks Were a big time team until Coogan went single, going into Made in America' for the Shuberts,' also road shows headed by Trixie Friganza and Annette Kellerman. Coogan retired to handle his son's business affairs after Jackie clicked in 'The Kid' In 1920, but he returned to the stage in 1928 to support the boy on a personal appearance tour of the picture houses. The act got $5,500 and Jackie was the attraction, but the reviews gave Coogan, Sr., credit for making it an entertaining act with his dancing. Of all parents of stage children, Coogan, Sr., was regarded generally by show business as having been about the shrewdest. He kept the boy's tremendous income intact in Jackie's name, establishing a $1,000,000 trust fund for him, and was lately said to have built the fortune up to $1,500,000. Mrs. Coogan, the mother of Jackie, was also a vaudevillian, known as Lillian Dolliver. She was a member of the sister team. The Rena Rogers of the act is now Mrs. Frank Borzage. The Coogans have another child besides Jackle. He is Robert Anthony Coogan, 10 yeara old. Coogan has also appeared in pictures. Junior Durkin also was a child film star in his time, but at 17, and much like Jackle Coogan, had outgrown the kid actor age. He played Important roles in many pictures. notably in 'Huckleberry Finn,' and was among the best known juveniles ever to step before a camera. Durkin was a prominent member of the Hollywood younger set in which Jackle Coogan travels. Rohert Horner, 25, was a promising youthful author. He had written for pictures, but most of the recent work was for radio on the Coast. Charles Jones, 40, also killed in the crash, was foreman of the Coogan ranch. BOXED INSURED SHIPPINHG WITHIN 2 BUSINESS DAYS

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