Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
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A remake of the 1917 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name, Poor Little Rich Girl stars Shirley Temple in the title role. Neglected by her widowed soap-tycoon father (Michael Whalen), lonely Barbara Barry (Temple) spends most of her time in the company of her nursemaid Collins (Sara Haden). While… More A remake of the 1917 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name, Poor Little Rich Girl stars Shirley Temple in the title role. Neglected by her widowed soap-tycoon father (Michael Whalen), lonely Barbara Barry (Temple) spends most of her time in the company of her nursemaid Collins (Sara Haden). While on a shopping excursion in the City, Collins is killed in a traffic accident, and Barbara gets lost in the crowd. She finds shelter in the warm and loving tenement home of barber Tony (Henry Armetta), where she makes the acquaintance of vaudeville entertainers Jerry and Jimmy Dolan (Alice Faye and Jack Haley). Assuming that the girl is an orphan, the Dolans invite her to join their act when they discover that she possesses considerable singing and dancing talents. As fate would have it, Jerry, Jimmy and Barbara audition for a radio program which happens to be sponsored by Barbara's dad! For all its music, charm and vivacity, Poor Little Rich Girl has an unsettling inner lining of cruelty: Not only is the plot motivated by the death of Shirley's governess, but our poor heroine spends a good portion of the film avoiding a seedy would-be child molester (John Wray)! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Irving Cummings
- Written By
- Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, Harry Tugend
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Romance, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics
G,
- In Theaters
- Jul 24, 1936 Wide
- Studio
- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Shirley Temple
as Barbara Barry
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Alice Faye
as Jerry Dolan
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Gloria Stuart
as Margaret Allen
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Jack Haley
as Jimmy Dolan
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Michael Whalen
as Richard Barry
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Sara Haden
as Collins
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Jane Darwell
as Mrs. Woodward
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Paul Stanton
as George Hathaway
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Henry Armetta
as Tony Organ Grinder
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Charles Coleman
as Stebbins
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Arthur Hoyt
as Percival Gooch
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John Kelly
as Ferguson
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John Wray
as Flagin
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Tyler Brooke
as Dan Ward
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Mathilde Comont
as Tony's Wife
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Leonard Kibrick
as Freckles
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Billy Ray
as Announcer
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Claude Gillingwater
as Simon Peck
- Frank Haley
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Gayne Whitman
as Announcer
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Tony Martin
as Radio Vocalist
