Poor Little Rich Girl

“ARE YOU AN ARMFUL OF HEAVEN ON EARTH? ...YOU ARE---BUT DEFINITELY!”

6.6(19)19361h 19m

AdventureFamilyMusic

Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.

Director

Irving Cummings

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Cast

Shirley Temple

Barbara Barry

Alice Faye

Jerry Dolan

Gloria Stuart

Margaret Allen

Jack Haley

Jimmy Dolan

Michael Whalen

Richard Barry

Sara Haden

Collins

Jane Darwell

Woodward

Claude Gillingwater

Simon Peck

Paul Stanton

George Hathaway

Henry Armetta

Tony

Tony Martin

Radio Baritone Soloist (uncredited)

Charles Coleman

Stebbins

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1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

Shirley Temple couldn't have been more than eight years old when she starred - and that is the word - in this gently amusing comedy about a young girl "Barbara" who lives the life a molly-coddled girl with her doting, wealthy father "Richard" (Michael Whalen). When he decides to send her to school, she gets lost and ends up lodging with street entertainer "Tony" (Henry Armetta) and his large famil...