This is the movie in which Shirley Temple sings "Animal Crackers In My Soup".
Shirley and her sister Rochelle Hudson are two orphans. When the trustees come by, John Boles is taken with the youngster, and decides to adopt her in a way she won't have to be grateful to him, so he invents an imaginary benefactor. Shirley and Miss Hudson are a package, and so they wind up winning over Boles' aunt, Esther Dale, as well as his staff of butler Arthur Treacher and cook Billy Gilbert.
Fox had decided on a deliberate plan of adapting earlier child-star vehicles for Miss Temple, and this one is based on Jean Webster's Daddy Long-Legs, via the Mary Pickford movie; it being rather difficult for Boles to marry Miss Temple, Miss Hudson was added to the mix. Boles gets to demonstrate his fine voice by singing two songs, and Miss Hudson gets one. It's all rather silly and charming, and the only real stress in the movie is when Miss Temple tap-dances atop a white baby grand piano. With Jane Darwell and Etienne Giradot.
Shirley and her sister Rochelle Hudson are two orphans. When the trustees come by, John Boles is taken with the youngster, and decides to adopt her in a way she won't have to be grateful to him, so he invents an imaginary benefactor. Shirley and Miss Hudson are a package, and so they wind up winning over Boles' aunt, Esther Dale, as well as his staff of butler Arthur Treacher and cook Billy Gilbert.
Fox had decided on a deliberate plan of adapting earlier child-star vehicles for Miss Temple, and this one is based on Jean Webster's Daddy Long-Legs, via the Mary Pickford movie; it being rather difficult for Boles to marry Miss Temple, Miss Hudson was added to the mix. Boles gets to demonstrate his fine voice by singing two songs, and Miss Hudson gets one. It's all rather silly and charming, and the only real stress in the movie is when Miss Temple tap-dances atop a white baby grand piano. With Jane Darwell and Etienne Giradot.