(81 mins.) Released 1935-02-22
Director: David Butler
Stars: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge
comedy, family, musical
originally posted 23 Oct 2017 19:34
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is the only reason I own Shirley Temple movies. Here is his first. He dances twice: once to get ST up the stairs to bed (marvelous, starts 56:40, about 3 min), and with her in the stable (with wooden floor, 1:06:30 for 2 min). (According to Encyclopedia Britannica, where photo originates, BR worked as a stable boy at age 8, also danced for pennies then.)
The last 2 minutes are in color. When you watch that, and then look at the colorized movie, you see just how awful colorization still is.
Nice to see Lionel Barrymore walking upright.
Fox Film Corp, dir. Butler; 7-
