The Little Colonel (1935)




Shirley Temple - The Little Colonel

Shirley Temple, Bill Robinson - The Little Colonel




After Southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd runs off to marry Yankee Jack Sherman, her father, a former Confederate colonel during the Civil War, vows to never speak to her again. Several years pass and Elizabeth returns to her home town with her husband and young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Little Colonel

Robert Windeler
The Films of Shirley Temple
Secaucus, NJ, 1981

Books with an entry on The Little Colonel

Aubrey Solomon
The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935, A history and filmography
Jefferson, N.C., 2011

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Articles on The Little Colonel

Kathy Merlock Jackson and Ray Merlock, The North, The South; Black Folks, White Folks, Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017



Year: 1935
Country: US
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0016029