The Little Princess (1939 film)
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The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film was the first Shirley Temple movie to be filmed completely in Technicolor.[3] It was also her last major success as a child star.[4] This film was the third of three in which Shirley Temple and Cesar Romero appeared together, second was Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937).[5]
The Little Princess | |
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Directed by | Walter Lang |
Screenplay by | Ethel Hill Walter Ferris |
Based on | A Little Princess 1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck Gene Markey |
Starring | Shirley Temple Richard Greene Anita Louise Ian Hunter Arthur Treacher Cesar Romero |
Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller William Skall |
Edited by | Louis Loeffler |
Music by | Charles Maxwell Cyril J. Mockridge Herbert W. Spencer Samuel Pokrass |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | over $1 million[1] or $1.3 million[2] |
Although it maintained the novel's Victorian London setting, the film introduced several new characters and storylines and used the Second Boer War and the siege of Mafeking as a backdrop to the action. Temple and Arthur Treacher had a musical number together, performing the song "Knocked 'Em in the Old Kent Road". Temple also appeared in an extended ballet sequence. The film's ending was drastically different from the book.
In 1968, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication.[6]