The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnet
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Shirley Temple and Arthur Treacher
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A Little Princess is a work by British-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett, presented as a 1888 novella, a 1902 play and a 1905 children's novel. All three versions tell the story of Sara Crewe, a
The Little Princess (1939 film)
…Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novel 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…
Front cover of the first US edition of A Little Princess (1905)
She Slowly Advanced into the Parlor, Clutching Her Doll: Illustration by Reginald B. Birch from Sara Crewe; or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's (1888)
‘Eat it, and you will not feel so hungry.’ Illustration by Harold H. Piffard from the first UK edition of A Little Princess (1905).
Millie James as Sara Crewe in the Broadway production of Burnett's play, The Little Princess (1903).