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Poor Little Rich Girl

Film / 1936

Poor Little Rich Girl

Directed by Irving Cummings

AdventureFamily

★ 6.6/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Shirley TempleBarbara Barry Alice FayeJerry Dolan Gloria StuartMargaret Allen Jack HaleyJimmy Dolan Michael WhalenRichard Barry Sara HadenCollins Jane DarwellWoodward Claude GillingwaterSimon Peck Paul StantonGeorge Hathaway Henry ArmettaTony Charles ColemanStebbins Arthur HoytPercival Gooch

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John WrayFlagin Tyler BrookeDan Ward Mathilde ComontTony's Wife Tony MartinRadio Baritone Soloist (uncredited)

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