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starring: Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Brooks, Edna May Oliverdirected by: Irving Cummings
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0024543033615
Format: Closed-captioned, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: March 12, 2002
Running Time: 72 minutes
Sales Rank: 14490
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: September 16, 1938
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Sheer and irresistible hokum, Little Miss Broadway is classic Shirley Temple entertainment, with the moonfaced, squeaky-voiced starlet playing the singin'-est, dancin'-est orphan in New York City. Adopted by the elderly manager of a show-biz hotel, Shirley gets caught between the lovable show folk and the tyrannical landlady (superlative sourpuss Edna Mae Oliver) who wants to tear the hotel down. Naturally, there's a wealthy but kindhearted nephew on one side of the fight and a poor but lovely niece on the other, along with a cast of colorful characters, including Jimmy Durante and assorted musicians, jugglers, tap-dancing little people, and a trained penguin. It all comes to a crescendo in the most preposterous art-deco courtroom you've ever seen. Temple set the standard for precocious moppets to come; as corny as her antics may be, even contemporary cynics will fall for her radiant charm. This DVD includes both a spruced-up black-and-white version and a colorized version--though the colorization is much improved, skin tones still end up with the unsettling amber of a bad tanning salon job. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - "Dontcha be a grumpy!"
Betsy (Shirley Temple) is a little orphan girl who knows that the world should just all "smile, smile! Smile and be happy!" Her cheery attitude gets her adopted into a theatrical family who resides at a hotel, but the landlady wants her money, and the troupe has none. Fortunately for Betsy, the landlady's nephew (George Murphy) is sympathetic to their cause and wants to help.
Little Miss Broadway is pleasant but standard. The story is absolutely unimportant; the stars are really the ... Read More
Rating:  - it's all here in one great big package
Little Miss Broadway is yet another charming movie that stars the great Shirley Temple. The plot moves along at a good pace and I thought that the acting was very convincing.
The action begins when Betsy Shea (Shirley Temple) is adopted out of a girl's orphanage by William J. "Pop" Shea (Edward Ellis), who manages the Hotel Variety in New York. Betsy will be living in the Hotel with "Pop," his daughter Barbara Shea (Phyllis Brooks) and a host of actors and vaudevillians who are mostly ... Read More
Rating: - "Little Miss Broadway (1938) ... Shirley Temple ... Legend Films (2005)"
Legend Films and 20th Century Fox present "LITTLE MISS BROADWAY" (released: 16 September 1938) (72 mins) (B&W/Color Versions) - Under Irving Cummings (Director), David Hempstead (Producer), Darryl F. Zanuck (Producer), Harry Tugend (Screenwriter), Jack Yellen (Screenwriter),Walter Bullock - Composer (Music Score) / Songwriter), Louis Silvers - Musical Direction/Supervision / Composer (Music Score), Harold Spina (Songwriter / Composer (Music Score), Walter Thompson (Editor), Nick Castle (Choreography), ... Read More
Rating:  - cute musical
LITTLE MISS BROADWAY stars Shirley Temple in another harmless musical confection especially tailored to her talents. As in most of her film vehicles, she plays an orphaned show-biz wiz who comes to the rescue.
Temple plays the sparky orphan Betsy Brown, who lives with her surrogate family at the Hotel Variety, a favourite spot for showbusiness types. Things look grim when the hotel is to be torn down for a new development. Betsy decides to appeal for help from the cranky landlady Sarah Wendling ... Read More
Rating: - Who doesn't love Shirley Temple?
This is a great collection and a MUST have for any Shirley Temple Collector! But who doesn't love the original Child Superstar? She is funny and timeless, way before even my Mom's time and both my Mom and I and my nieces love her! This is a non-generational must watch family movies, that not only are funny, fun and entertaining, but help instill values that seem to have been lost in our times! This collection will make you laugh and cry as Shirley draws you in with every word.
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