Curly Top

Curly Top is a 1935 musical movie starring Shirley Temple. It was directed by Irving Cummings. It is loosely based on the 1912 children's book Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. The movie tells the story of an orphan adopted by a rich man. Temple introduced one of her signature songs, "Animal Crackers in My Soup", in the movie.

Curly Top was a box office hit, but it was banned in Denmark for unspecified "corruption". In China, Madame Chiang Kai-shek asked for repeated private showings.Temple, Shirley. 1989. Child Star. p. 153

Cast
 Shirley Temple as Elizabeth Blair, an inmate of a dreary orphanage 
 John Boles as Edward Morgan, a rich trustee of the orphanage
 Rochelle Hudson as Mary Blair, Elizabeth’s teenage sister
 Esther Dale as Genevieve Graham, Morgan’s elderly aunt
 Arthur Treacher as Reynolds, Morgan’s English butler
 Jane Darwell as Mrs. Henrietta Denham, a heavy-set, elderly matron at the orphanage
 Rafaela Ottiano as Mrs. Higgins, the severe, thin-lipped superintendent of the orphanage
 Etienne Girardot as James Wyckoff, a stern, elderly, penny-pinching trustee of the Orphanage and the manufacturer of Wyckoff’s Cough Mixture
 Maurice Murphy as Jimmie Rogers, Mary's rich young suitor

References

Category:1935 musical movies
Category:American musical movies
Category:Movies based on books
Category:English-language movies
Category:20th Century Fox movies
Category:Movies directed by Irving Cummings