“How to Train Your Dragon” director Dean DeBlois has come on board to direct and produce “Treasure Island” for Universal ... Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper. It’s the second gig in ...

Through her brother-in-law, Taurog, she was able to arrange extra work in movies for young Jackie. MGM signed Cooper to a contract after "Skippy," and he attended the studio school with Mickey ...

Jackie Cooper ... "The Champ," "The Bowery," "Treasure Island" and "O'Shaughnessy's Boy," all co-starring Wallace Beery. With his career fading after World War II, Cooper left Hollywood for ...

The three notable movies on Treasure Island include Victor Fleming’s 1934 movie starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper in the respective roles of Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins. Then there ...

Jackie Cooper, the impish child actor ... such as "The Champ" (1931), "The Bowery" (1933) and "Treasure Island" (1934). The New York Times, in a 1935 movie review, lamented that the 13-year ...

Jackie Cooper, whose tousled blond hair, pouty lower lip and ability to cry on camera helped make him one of the top child stars of the 1930s in films such as “Skippy” and “The Champ,” has ...

LOS ANGELES • Jackie ... Mr. Cooper most memorably played the loyal son of fallen boxer Beery in "The Champ" (1931) and young Jim Hawkins opposite Beery's Long John Silver in "Treasure Island ...

Universal Pictures is developing 'Treasure Island,' an action-adventure inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, with Dean DeBlois set to direct. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Evan ...

His pug nose, crinkly smile and pouty lip endeared him to a nationwide audience, first as Jackie ... of duty, Cooper attained the rank of captain. After the war, Cooper found movie roles harder ...