The Little Colonel
by David Butler
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Actor: Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Lionel Barrymore, Shirley Temple, Sidney BlackmerDirector: David Butler
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Arthur C. Miller
Cinematographer: William V. Skall
Producer: Buddy G. DeSylva
Writer: Anne Fellows Johnston
Writer: William M. Conselman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Movie Review: Shirley's best
Summary: 5 Stars
Have not opened this movie because it is a Christmas gift for our granddaughter. However, I JUST LOVE Shirley Temple so I know I too will enjoy watching it with our granddaugher. Look forward to it.
Summary of The Little Colonel
As the rambunctious "Little Colonel," Shirley Temple demonstrates her acting range as well as her lovable charm and song-and-dance showmanship in this affecting post-Civil War story. After a blistery Southern colonel (Lionel Barrymore) banishes his daughter (Evelyn Venable) for marrying a Northerner (John Lodge), he refuses to see her even when she returns years later with her young daughter. As outspoken as her grandfather, the ingenious child turns on plenty of charm and fireworks to set things right.Shirley Temple is at her plucky peak in this film. She bests legend Lionel Barrymore: literally (her credit is above his) and figuratively (as her character softens his). The Little Colonel is set in the post-Civil War South. Little Lloyd Sherman hopes to reunite her mother, Elizabeth Lloyd (Evelyn Venable), with her stern Confederate Civil War veteran grandfather, Colonel Lloyd (Barrymore). Six years earlier, Lloyd's mother had run away to marry Yankee Jack Sherman (John Lodge). Now the young family hopes to return to Elizabeth's plantation home.
Like The Littlest Rebel, made the same year (1935), the film has questionable politics, featuring a supplicant Mom Becky (the formidable future Oscar-winner Hattie McDaniel) and a poor-spelling butler, Walker (Bill "BoJangles" Robinson). But Temple, as sweetly energetic little Lloyd, is affectionate with both, as well as with her African American playmates, May Lily (Avonnie Jackson) and Henry Clay (Nyanza Potts). (Temple apparently shared the sentiment in real life, and once said Robinson was her favorite costar.) The Little Colonel features the amazing dance number with Temple and Robinson merrily tapping up and down a staircase. --N.F. Mendoza
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