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Poor Little Rich Girl is a american film of genre Adventure directed by Irving Cummings released in USA on 18 july 1936 with Shirley Temple
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
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Add to a movie listPoor Little Rich Girl, advertised as The Poor Little Rich Girl, is a 1936 American musical film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay by Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, and Harry Tugend was based on stories by Eleanor Gates and Ralph Spence, and the 1917 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name. The film focuses on a child (Temple) neglected by her rich and busy father. She meets two vaudeville performers and becomes a radio singing star. The film received a lukewarm critical reception from The New York Times.
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Barbara Barry (Shirley Temple) is the young daughter of wealthy Richard Barry (Michael Whalen), a recently widowed soap manufacturer. Worried that his daughter is spending too much time alone and not with other children her age, her father decides to send Barbara to boarding school. At the train station, Barbara and her accompanying nanny are separated when the nanny Collins (Sara Haden), looking for her stolen handbag, is hit and killed by a car.Actors
Shirley Temple
(Barbara Barry)
Alice Faye
(Jerry Dolan)
Jack Haley
(Jimmy Dolan)
Joseph Kenneth Shovlin
(Richard Barry)
Gloria Stuart
(Margaret Allen)
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