1h 28min | Drama, Romance, Comedy | 22 January 1942 (premiere 18 December 1941)
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Stars: Shirley Temple, Herbert Marshall, Laraine Day, Gail Patrick, Felix Bressart
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033780/
Watched online, fuzzy print.
Ah, this is actually not classified as Music/Musical, which makes sense. There's only 1 such sequence, a daydream where her highnotes are dubbed, and her dancing is nearly nonexistent with chorus boys in formal wear (I think; I'm not going back to check.)
In the Tap! Appendix for ST, but that is misguided. What little dancing she did was generalized, not tap. At least in the print that I saw, so far as I remember.
In the Tap! Appendix for ST, but that is misguided. What little dancing she did was generalized, not tap. At least in the print that I saw, so far as I remember.
ST (b. 1928) is playing 12, but she seems older. And yes, she's again a semi-orphan, with a nanny who should find a job without human interaction. LD is instantly lovable, and GP plays her usual B!tch, so treacly on the outside, with a heart of a cash vault.
It's ok, with the happy ending you'd expect, but brought on a little too suddenly.
It's ok, with the happy ending you'd expect, but brought on a little too suddenly.
MGM, dir. Bucquet; 6
