Photo: 1998 Cadillac Eureka hearse, $14,990. Credit: Heritage Coach.
Queen of the Dead – dateline September 5, 2011
• Not all 1930s child actresses were sad and bitter, though recent obits of Marcia Mae Jones and Edith Fellows were pretty depressing. But the talented Sybil Jason (who died on August 23, at 83) had a brief but happy career. She appeared at Warner Brothers with Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Humphrey Bogart and Ann Sheridan, and was promoted as a less sugary Shirley Temple (Time amusingly called her the Jean Harlow to Temple’s Ann Harding: “less wholesome but more refreshing”). She left films in 1940, but as recently as two years ago, was posting thanks to her fans on YouTube, noting that “I enjoyed every single second of my career,” and that she was still pals with her screen rival Shirley Temple.
