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starring

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and

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. This was Yasmine's first film at the age of 12 years.

Plot

Theresa O'Brian is a 12-year-old

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who desperately wants to attend a school for the performing arts and become a star. She is not receiving encouragement at the orphanage and is getting into trouble with the orphanage officials due to her infractions of the rules and regulations. In one of her unauthorized adventures away from the orphanage, she meets and befriends Sammy Cohen who was a

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performer who became an

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and lost his career. He is interested in renewing his career and has faith in Theresa's ability, and together they develop an act called "Buddy and Babe" in order to raise money for Theresa's tuition.

Cast

as Sammy (Cohen) *

as Theresa (O'Brian) * Maruska Stankova as Miss Wolf *

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as Roy *Denise Proulx as Miss Dolphine *Tara Lee Bell as Sandy *Saundra Baly as Kate *

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as TV Singer *Gordie Brown as Jean Shot in 1979, the film was released in 1983, by which time the film's "TV Singer" Geraldine Hunt had scored a 1980 ''

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'' National Disco Action Top 100 number-one hit with "

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Production credits

*Rafal Zielinski (Director) *Edith Rey (Writer) *Arthur Veronka (Producer)

External links

* 1983 films English-language Canadian films Films directed by Rafal Zielinski Canadian musical drama films 1980s musical drama films Films about orphans Films about music and musicians 1983 drama films 1980s English-language films 1980s Canadian films English-language musical drama films 1983 musical films {{musical-drama-film-stub