B00005BI91

011891970006

1939

1939-03-17

93

1h 33min

Awards, 1 nomination

Walter Lang, William A. Seiter

Ethel Hill, Walter Ferris, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise

Gene Markey

Charles Maxwell, Cyril J. Mockridge

Arthur C. Miller, William V. Skall

Louis R. Loeffler

Bernard Herzbrun, Hans Peters

Thomas Little

Gwen Wakeling

Darryl F. Zanuck

Gene Bryant

Richard Day

Roger Heman Sr., E. Clayton Ward

Sam Benson, Eugene Joseff

Walter Bullock, Samuel Pokrass, Louis Silvers, Herbert W. Spencer

Ernest Belcher, Nick Castle, Natalie Kalmus, Morgan Padelford, Geneva Sawyer

Comedy, Drama, Family

Twentieth Century Fox

USA

English, Hindi

Approved

7.1

6214

The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film was the first Shirley Temple movie to be filmed completely in Technicolor. It was also her last major success as a child star.

Although it maintained the novel s Victorian London setting, the film introduced several new characters and storylines and used the Second Boer War and the siege of Mafeking as a backdrop to the action. Temple and Arthur Treacher had a musical number together, performing the song Knocked Em in the Old Kent Road . Temple also appeared in an extended ballet sequence. The film s ending was drastically different from the book.

In 1968, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Boer war,little girl,boarding school,orphan girl,presumed dead