Poor Little Rich Girl

Poor Little Rich Girl

79 mins | Adventure, Family, Music | July 18, 1936

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.

Poor Little Rich Girl

79 mins | Adventure, Family, Music | July 18, 1936

Poor Little Rich Girl
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Poor Little Rich Girl
Directors Booth McCracken, Irving Cummings
Writers Gladys Lehman, Sam Hellman, Harry Tugend

Cast

Shirley Temple

as Barbara Barry

Alice Faye

as Jerry Dolan

Gloria Stuart

as Margaret Allen

Jack Haley

as Jimmy Dolan

Michael Whalen

as Richard Barry

Sara Haden

as Collins

Jane Darwell

as Woodward

Claude Gillingwater

as Simon Peck

Paul Stanton

as George Hathaway

Henry Armetta

as Tony

Tony Martin

as Radio Baritone Soloist (uncredited)

Charles Coleman

as Stebbins

Arthur Hoyt

as Percival Gooch

John Wray

as Flagin

Tyler Brooke

as Dan Ward

Mathilde Comont

as Tony's Wife