Little Miss Broadway

1938
PG
1h 12m

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Shirley Temple, Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Brooks, George Murphy, and Edna May Oliver in Little Miss Broadway (1938)

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show-business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show-business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show-business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.

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6.5/10

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Shirley Temple

Betsy Brown

George Murphy

Roger Wendling

Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Clayton

Phyllis Brooks

Barbara Shea

Edna May Oliver

Sarah Wendling
(as Edna Mae Oliver)

George Barbier

Fiske

Edward Ellis

Pop Shea

Jane Darwell

Miss Hutchins

El Brendel

Donald Meek

Willoughby Wendling

Patricia Wilder

Flossie

Claude Gillingwater

Judge
(as Claude Gillingwater Sr.)

George Brasno

George Brasno
(as George)

Olive Brasno

Olive Brasno
(as Olive)

Charles Williams

Mike Brody

Charles Coleman

Simmons

Russell Hicks

Perry

The Brian Sisters

Specialty
(as Brian Sisters)

Director
- Irving Cummings
Writers
- Harry Tugend
- Jack Yellen
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Storyline

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Trivia
Mr Brasno asks Mike if he has anything for him and his wife, and Mike replies, "Buffalo, next week." The tap step the Brasnos do out of the room is called "Shuffle Off to Buffalo," or simply "Buffalo Step."

Goofs
When the "Hot and Happy Four" are checking into the Hotel Variety, they agree to pay a year in advance at $40 per week. Mr. Wendling hands Mr. Shea a check and says "52 times 40 is 2,008." Mr Shea is pleased with this amount and Betsy even compliments him on his arithmetic. Captions verify the line. The error is that 52 x 40 = 2,080, not 2,008.

Quotes
Betsy Brown: [singing] Don't wear a long face, it's never in style! Be optimistic and smile!

Connections
Featured in Gotta Dance, Gotta Sing (1982)

Soundtracks
Little Miss Broadway
(1938) (uncredited)
Music by Harold Spina
Lyrics by Walter Bullock
Played over opening and closing credits
Also sung by George Murphy

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10/10

The most "musical" of all Temple's movies.

Being this the very first Shirley Temple movie I've ever seen, I must say it's my favorite. Shirley gives a great performance singing and dancing in all her numbers! And that one we can really call "musical". On the other ones we can see only one or two scenes with singing and dancing, but at this one you can see singing and dancing almost all the time.

Shirley's an optimistic orphan who is adopted by a Vaudeville hotel "owner" and his daughter. She meets a guy (George Murphy, who is FABULOUS dancing with Shirley on the number "We Should be Together") trying to convince his aunt (Edna May Oliver, the real owner) to not close the hotel.

Shirley looks so sweet in that movie, in all her numbers -- especially in "If the world was a paper", "We should be together" and "Little Miss Broadway".

Anyway, this is a very enjoyable movie. Anyone who watches it can enjoy not just Shirley's performances but almost everything in the movie: the story, the characters, the songs, the dancing and so on. A heartwarming movie starring one of the sweetest Child-Stars of all the time with fabulous co-stars. A family movie that can be watched by children, adults and even teenagers and old people.