Dimples
by William A. Seiter
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Actor: Frank Morgan, Helen Westley, Robert Kent, Shirley Temple, Stepin FetchitDirector: William A. Seiter
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Bert Glennon
Editor: Herbert Levy
Producer: Nunnally Johnson
Writer: Nunnally Johnson
Writer: Arthur Sheekman
Writer: Nat Perrin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Dimples
Movie Review: Pretty Good, But Shirley's Done Better
Summary: 3 Stars
It's good Fox re-issued these Temple DVDs with much better quality (on those 3-pack Temple collections). You should have seen the first DVD attempt; it was a pitiful transfer. Now, they've done it right.
I liked all the songs and dances in "Dimples," especially the ones earlier in the film. There are a few more numbers here on than on most of her movies, which is fine with me. Temple is still cute and winsome as ever and there are no evil-nasty villains in here, for a change.
Yet, Frank Mogan can be a bit annoying and Stepin Fetchit is just plain aggravating. Fortunately, he has a minor role without much dialogue.
In summary, a decent Shirley Temple movie but she made at least a handful of others during this time period that were much better It's still a sad comment there are only 10 reviews of this, as I submit this in early 2009. Don't people appreciate this girl's talent? She is a legend.
Summary of Dimples
Ever cheerful, little dimples sings for money in the bowery while her thieving grandfather pickpockets the crowd she attracts. When a society lady adopts her, Dimples is discovered by the woman's nephew who needs someone to play Little Eva in his upcoming production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".The pathologically adorable Shirley Temple provides a neat escape hatch from modern movies' irony and cynicism in Dimples, a 1936 classic about a down-and-out 6-year-old busker sharing a squalid Bowery flat with her scoundrel of a grandfather, the Professor. When Dimples and her posse of ragamuffin performers score a gig at a rich old lady's party, the thieving Professor pulls the plug on everyone's good time by five-fingering the guests' furs. Dimples is nabbed but negotiates her freedom from fat-cat hostess Caroline with nothing more than her cuteness. Indeed, the lonely widow is so smitten by Dimples that soon she's offering the money-grubbing but goodhearted Professor five grand for the girl. No amount of money, of course, could buy the precocious Dimples from her grandpa, whom she considers "a gentleman and a scholar," but when he winds up in a heap of trouble for letting $800 slip through his fingers--money that was supposed to go toward costumes for a play in which Dimples stars--his only hope is to cash in on Caroline's desire for Dimples. The great Bill Robinson directs all Temple's dance numbers, none of which dashes nostalgic viewers' notions that a dose of sugar and spice and everything nice needn't be nothing special. Even those overly susceptible to sneering will succumb to this film's sweetness. The black and white film is also available in a colorized version. --Tammy La Gorce
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