Poor Little Rich Girl
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Poor Little Rich Girl

(1936)Directed by Irving Cummings79 minAdventure, Family
“ARE YOU AN ARMFUL OF HEAVEN ON EARTH? ...YOU ARE---BUT DEFINITELY!”

On her way to boarding school, Barbara Barry (Shirley Temple) loses her nurse to an injury and ends up alone in town, the daughter of a soap manufacturer with no one left to answer to. She falls in with Jerry and Jimmy Dolan (Alice Faye, Jack Haley), a song-and-dance act on radio, whose sponsor is a rival soap company. Irving Cummings stages the numbers as plain, bright showpieces and lets Temple carry them.

Shirley Templeas Barbara Barry
Alice Fayeas Jerry Dolan
Gloria Stuartas Margaret Allen
Jack Haleyas Jimmy Dolan
Michael Whalenas Richard Barry
Sara Hadenas Collins
Jane Darwellas Woodward
Claude Gillingwateras Simon Peck
Paul Stantonas George Hathaway
Charles Colemanas Stebbins
Arthur Hoytas Percival Gooch
John Wrayas Flagin
Tyler Brookeas Dan Ward
Mathilde Comontas Tony's Wife
Tony Martinas Radio Baritone Soloist (uncredited)