The best Jackie Cooper’s drama movies
Today we present the best Jackie Cooper’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jackie Cooper’s movies.
Ziegfeld Girl
6.7/10
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
The Bowery
6.8/10
"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.
The Return of Frank James
6.6/10
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
The Champ
7.3/10
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
Hollywood Cavalcade
6.5/10
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Dinky
5.5/10
A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
The Devil Is a Sissy
6.7/10
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
The Astronaut
6.5/10
An elaborate deception emerges when an American astronaut is lost on a mission to Mars. Space agency officials fearful of losing public support and government funding decide to cover up the accident by employing an exact double for the lost astronaut. The ruse begins to unravel when the wife of the lost astronaut realizes she is living with a different man. Although angered by the deception, the woman has fallen in love with the replacement and plans to keep the secret. They both have a change of heart and decide to reveal the secret when they discover a new Mars mission is underway.
Skippy
6.3/10
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
Calhoun
7.1/10
Unaired pilot for a drama/adventure series about a county agent.
What a Life
6.8/10
Jackie Cooper stars in this first film in the wholesome "Henry Aldrich" series of teen comedies.
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
6.2/10
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
The Love Machine
4.8/10
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.
Shadow on the Land
6.1/10
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
Newsboys' Home
6.3/10
A beautiful girl inherits a newspaper that sponsors a charity home for boys.
Glamour Boy
6.9/10
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.
Tough Guy
5.9/10
An unhappy child, accompanied by his dog, runs away from home and is befriended by a gangster on the lam.
Seventeen
6.2/10
A high-school student in a small town becomes smitten with the sophisticated new girl who's just arrived from Chicago. Based on Booth Tarkington's story.
Young Donovan's Kid
6.2/10
A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.
The Our Gang Story
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
