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The Little Princess (1939)
American Family Comedy Drama.
A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, while her father fights in the Second Boer War. Later, when he is presumed dead she is forced to become a servant.
At the time this was made, Shirley Temple’s reign as America’s #1 Box Office Star was coming to an end, so 20th Century-Fox spared no expense in terms of production costs.
The Little Princess was based on a popular children’s book and had an unprecedented budget of $1 million.
This lavish production paid off when this became Temple’s final box office money-maker as a child star.
Great lengths were taken to make sure everything on film was period-correct for England in 1899. Production was halted when it was discovered that of the costumes Shirley Temple wore had fasteners which were not invented until 1908.
The Little Princess was Shirley Temple’s first all-Technicolor film.
| Directed by | Walter Lang |
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| Screenplay by | Ethel Hill Walter Ferris |
| Based on | A Little Princess 1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck Gene Markey |
| Starring | Shirley Temple Richard Greene Anita Louise Ian Hunter Arthur Treacher Cesar Romero |
| Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller William Skall |
| Edited by | Louis Loeffler |
| Music by | Charles Maxwell Cyril J. Mockridge Herbert W. Spencer Samuel Pokrass |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
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93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | over $1 million |
