The Little Colonel

“She Has Won An Unconditional Surrender From Every Heart!”

Why would a former Confederate colonel cut off his own daughter and refuse to say her name? Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman (Evelyn Venable) ran off to marry a Yankee, Jack Sherman (John Lodge), and her father (Lionel Barrymore) swore he would never speak to her again. Years later she comes home with her husband and small daughter Lloyd (Shirley Temple), and David Butler's film leaves it to the child to win back a grandfather who will not forgive.