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Curly Top
film by Cummings [1935]
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- In Irving Cummings
…success to that time with Curly Top (1935), a remake of Mary Pickford’s Daddy-Long-Legs (1919). The family musical featured child star Shirley Temple, and the director and actress had another hit with Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), one of Temple’s strongest vehicles, thanks in part to the superior support of…
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role of Temple
- In Shirley Temple
featuring dancer Bill Robinson; Curly Top (1935); John Ford’s Wee Willie Winkie (1937); Heidi (1937), based on the children’s book by Johanna Spyri; and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938). Her overwhelming popularity resulted in the creation of a doll made in her likeness and a nonalcoholic
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