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The Little Princess
Directed by Walter Lang
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Gene Markey
Screenplay by Ethel Hill
Walter Ferris
Starring Shirley Temple
Richard Greene
Anita Louise
Ian Hunter
Arthur Treacher
Music by Charles Maxwell
Cyril J. Mockridge
Herbert W. Spencer
Samuel Pokrass
Cinematography Arthur C. Miller
William Skall
Editing by Louis Loeffler
Studio RKO Radio Pictures
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) March 10, 1939 (1939-03-10)
Running time 93 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget over $1 million
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Birthday party scene.

The Little Princess is a 1939 movie. It was directed by Walter Lang. It stars Shirley Temple. It is loosely based on the book A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was the first Shirley Temple movie to be filmed completely in Technicolor. It was also her last major success as a child star.

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Story

Captain Crewe is called to fight in the Second Boer War. He leaves his daughter Sara at Miss Minchin's School for Girls. One day, his lawyer arrives in the school with news that Captain Crewe has died and his real estate has been confiscated. Sara is now a poor orphan. She becomes a servant in the school. Sara tires of her servant duties. She sneaks off to Veterans Hospital, convinced her father is not dead. She finds him wounded. They reunite joyfully.

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