"Would you like to swing on a star…"

That scene made me buy Muppet Caper. When I saw it in the theater, I had no idea that scene consisted of Jerry Nelson walking with his daughter, Christine Elizabeth Nelson. She died due to cystic fibrosis at age 21 in 1982. That scene earned Christine her Actors Equity card. I read the memoir her mother, Jacquie…

That scene made me buy Muppet Caper. When I saw it in the theater, I had no idea that scene consisted of Jerry Nelson walking with his daughter, Christine Elizabeth Nelson. She died due to cystic fibrosis at age 21 in 1982. That scene earned Christine her Actors Equity card. I read the memoir her mother, Jacquie…