The Little Colonel (1935)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

David Butler

Writers:

William M. Conselman (writer)
Anne Fellows Johnston (novel)

Release Date:

22 February 1935 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family

Tagline:

Hail to the conquerer of ten million hearts.

Plot:

After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War...

Plot Keywords:

Colonel | Civil War | Yankee | Grandfather | Estrangement

Cast

Shirley Temple	...	Lloyd Sherman
Lionel Barrymore	...	Col. Lloyd
Evelyn Venable	...	Elizabeth Lloyd Sherman
John Lodge	...	Jack Sherman
Sidney Blackmer	...	Swazey
Alden 'Stephen' Chase	...	Hull
William Burress	...	Dr. Scott
Frank Darien	...	Nebler
Robert Warwick	...	Col. Gray
Hattie McDaniel	...	Becky ('Mom Beck') Porter
Geneva Williams	...	Maria
Avonnie Jackson	...	May Lily
Nyanza Potts	...	Henry Clay
Bill Robinson	...	Walker
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Edward Earle	...	Colonel's Aide (scenes deleted)

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

Certification:

Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | USA:PG (1994) | Australia:G

Company:

Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Performing their "staircase dance" together in this film made Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple the first interracial dancing couple in American movie history. This scene was cut when the film played in the southern United States.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Swazey and Hull come to see Jack, they stop and speak to Lloyd. During the conversation, Lloyd's hat ribbons alternate between hanging down her back and hanging over her shoulder.

Quotes:

Col. Lloyd: Walker, I want you to go to town on Saturday and buy a lot of little girls clothes.
Walker: What shall I buy, sir?
Col. Lloyd: Well, what do you suppose? Hats, shoes, stockings, dresses, and whatever goes under the dresses. And Walker?
Walker: Yes, sir?
Col. Lloyd: I'm an old fool.
Walker: Yes, sir!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Black History: Lost Stolen, or Strayed (1968) (TV)

Soundtrack:

My Old Kentucky Home

Cute but minimalistic fare ...

1st watched 12/17/2004 - 4 out of 10(Dir-David Butler): Cute but minimalistic fare from the Olsen Twins of her generation, Shirley Temple. The best parts of this movie are the dance routines with the black slave butler-like character and Miss future Temple-Black. We really don't get enough of these and the story itself, set in post-Civil war times in the south is pretty flimsy and setup just so "the cute one" can save the day with her charm. She is definitely charming, but it doesn't carry this particular movie unless maybe for the younger girls of this generation who also like the similar plot-less "Olsen twin" type movies.