The Little Colonel
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The Little Colonel | |
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Directed by | David Butler |
Produced by | Buddy G. DeSylva |
Written by | William M. Conselman Anne Fellows Johnston |
Starring | Shirley Temple Lionel Barrymore Evelyn Venable John Davis Lodge |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Running time | 80 min. |
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The Little Colonel is a 1935 movie starring Shirley Temple, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Lionel Barrymore and the Academy-Award winning actress Hattie McDaniel. The film features a famous tap-dance sequence on the stairs with Robinson and Temple. In 2005, a colorized version was released by Legend Films. The movie was based on the first book in a series by Annie Fellows Johnston, which was very popular in the early 20th century.