Bright Eyes (1934), The Little Colonel (1935), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), Captain January (1936), Little Miss Marker (1934), Three Smart Girls (1936), Baby, Take a Bow (1934) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Child Star movies.
Storyline: When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple she used to work for. A custody battle soon ensues between an aviator who adores the little girl and the couple's crotchety Uncle Ned.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: children's film, musical, family film, comedy, drama, classic film, black and white film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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 young daughter. The little girl charms her crusty grandfather and tries to patch things up between him and her mother.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, musical, drama, children, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, family, drama, child star, 1930s, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Little Barbara gets lost and is then picked up by entertainers who make her part of their act. Barbara's father hears the act on the radio and finds his lost daughter.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, musical film, family, children, wealth, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, family, drama, romance, child star, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones by her dad as part of a bet on a horse race. Sorrowful and his group of fellow bookies take to her, reluctantly at first, but their cynical ways start to rub off on her. Will a party set at Camelot bring back her faith in humanity?—Miss Eli
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, classic, black and white, 1930s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The three Craig sisters, in Switzerland with their ten-years-divorced mother, run away to New York to prevent their father from marrying calculating socialite Donna Lyons. The overpowering vivacity of the Smart Girls (nominal ages 14-20) sweeps all before it, but a romantic complication between middle sister Kay and their accidental ally, Lord Michael Stuart, threatens shipwreck to their schemes...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, family, romance, classic, song and dance, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, drama, family, musical, romance, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Penny Hale is the daughter of Jeff Hale, a once wealthy architect and widower now ruined by the depression and working as the maintenance man in an apartment building, in which his girlfriend Lola lives in the penthouse. Shirley, always positive and happy refuses to accept their drop in the world and believes prosperity is just around the corner. She makes friends with an eccentric, grumpy old man, Samuel G. Henshaw, who turns out to be a millionaire and backs her father's engineering plans.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, great depression, song and dance, family, children ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, family, children, song and dance, 1930s, orphan ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mickey Moran, a talented singer and musician, is son of a veteran from show business. Mickey has a partner, Patsy Barton, a pretty girl and also a very talented singer. One day, a big opportunity arrives for Mickey, a big contract to set up his own show. However, things don't go well, and in order to avoid being sent to a work farm, he'll improvise a show in the country, despite the awful weather conditions. Patsy's in love with Mickey, he loves her, too, but for him the show must go on, and his big dream maybe will come true: to formally stage his play in a big scenario, with a huge production.—Alejandro Frias
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, song and dance film, youth, inspirational, romance, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on misinformation from a meddling old-maid governess, Miss Featherstone, Joan also devotes some time to working on the no-problem marriage of her parents to the extent of hiring Dr. Hercules, the strong man from a side show to pay attention to her mother in order to make her father jealous, despite the good advice received from Walter Pidgeon.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, youth, family, romance, music, dance, school ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young girl endears herself to her caretakers after her father is murdered by mobsters.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, children, drama, classic, black and white, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alyssa (a rich girl) and Amanda (an orphan) are two little girls who are identical, but complete strangers, that accidentally meet one day. In an attempt to stop Alyssa's father from marrying Clarice, a conceited know-it-all, the girls get him to meet Amanda's case worker and switch places to stop the wedding once and for all. Though things don't go exactly as planned when Alyssa gets adopted and Clarice moves up the wedding.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, children, romance, twins, orphan, adoption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, drama, family, government, patriotic, song and dance ...
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