Curly Top is a 1935 American musical romantic comedy film starring Shirley Temple, John Boles and Rochelle Hudson.

Plot

A bachelor wants to adopt an orphan, but she refuses to leave behind her older sister, so he adopts them both. The man eventually falls in love with the latter.

Cast

* Shirley Temple as Elizabeth Blair * John Boles as Edward Morgan * Rochelle Hudson as Mary Blair *

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as Mrs. Denham * Rafaela Ottiano as Mrs. Higgins *

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as Aunt Genevieve Graham *

Etienne Girardot Etienne Girardot (22 February 1856 – 10 November 1939) was a diminutive stage and film actor of Anglo-French parentage born in London, England. Biography The son of French painter Ernest Gustave Girardot, he studied at an art school, but le ...

as Mr. Wyckoff *

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as Butler * Maurice Murphy as Jimmie Rogers

Reception

Helen Brown Norden wrote in '' Vanity Fair'' that Temple "has great charm and a phenomenal ease which permit her to dominate even such an absurd situation and stupid dialogue as are forced on her in her latest picture, ''Curly Top''. ''

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'' critic Ann Ross was of the opinion that "Admirers of the screen's first child wonder will dote on 'Curly Top.' People who find that all child performances on the screen, even Temple performances, stir up the wicked old Herod in them, had better stay away.

References

External links

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''Curly Top''
in the American Film Institute catalog {{Musical-film-stub 1930s American films American musical films American romantic comedy films Films about orphans Films directed by Irving Cummings