Curly Top

UPC: 024543167839

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: G   Contains:[Child Classic]

Summary: This adaptation of the oft-filmed Jean Webster novel Daddy Long Legs has been tailored to the talents of Shirley Temple. The orphaned daughter of vaudeville entertainers, Elizabeth Blair (Temple) is the most precocious charge at super-strict Lakeside Orphanage, regularly disrupting protocol with her extemporaneous performance of such songs as "Animal Crackers in My Soup" at the dinner table. While paying a visit to the orphanage, wealthy trustee Edward Morgan (John Boles) is enchanted by cute little Elizabeth -- and even more so by the girls more mature sister Mary (Rochelle Hudson). He secretly arranges for the sisters' release from the institution, sets them up in a lavish mansion, and finances their education. When Mary almost falls in love with another man, it is miss-fixit Elizabeth who brings Mary and Edward together, capping this bit of cupidity with her trademarked exclamation "Oh, my goo'ness!" The first Shirley Temple vehicle specifically aimed at children, Curly Top contains some wonderful character bits from its adult cast, notably Etienne Girardot, Rafaela Ottiano and Jane Darwell as the orphanage officials and by Arthur Treacher and Billy Gilbert as the hero's household servants. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Romance

Curly Top

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD1 Dolby Digital Mono, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 76 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Curly Top
1. Main Titles
2. The Orphanage
3. Mrs. Higgins
4. Animal Crackers in My Soup
5. The Trustees
6. Mr. Morgan Steps In
7. It's All So New to Me
8. A Home
9. About Mr. Jones
10. Mary Has a Suitor
11. A Show for the Orphans
12. The Simple Things in Life
13. When I Grow Up
14. A Proposal
15. Waking Uncle Edward
16. Curly Top
17. Another Proposal
18. End Titles/Exit Music

Cast and Crew: Arthur J. Beckhard  Screenwriter 
Irving Cummings  Director 
Ray Henderson  Composer (Music Score) 
Edward Heyman  Composer (Music Score) 
Ted Koehler  Composer (Music Score) 
Winfield R. Sheehan  Producer 
Patterson McNutt  Screenwriter 
Shirley Temple  Actor 
John Boles  Actor 
Rochelle Hudson  Actor 
Jane Darwell  Actor 
Rafaela Ottiano  Actor 
Esther Dale  Actor 
Etienne Girardot  Actor 
Arthur Treacher  Actor 
Maurice Murphy  Actor 

Country: USA