DIMPLES - DVD-2008-MADALINE ZIMA

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• Release Year: 1936
• Genre: Family, Musical
• Plot: Dimples is a busker - a street entertainer, and lives in mid-19th century New York City's Bowery with her kindhearted but pickpocketing Grandfather, Prof. Eustace Appleby. Dimples is a talented child and is hired to perform at a party in the home of Mrs. Caroline Drew, an elderly widow living in Washington Square. Dimples delights the gathering and charms not only the elderly mistress of the house but her nephew Allen as well, a theatrical producer betrothed to a lovely society belle. Allen engages Dimples to perform the role of Little Eva in his production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" while Mrs. Drew makes it possible for Dimples to remain in her genteel home and enjoy its benefits. Various complications ensue and Dimples bravely makes the decision to sacrifice her happiness to return to her slum dwelling Grandfather. Mrs. Drew traces Dimples's whereabouts and convinces Prof. Appleby that his lovely granddaughter deserves something better than a life of poverty and crime in the Bowery. The situation is resolved to everyone's satisfaction and the film ends with Dimples performing in New York City's first minstrel show.
• Cast: Shirley Temple, Frank Morgan, Robert Kent, Helen Westley, Stepin Fetchit, Astrid Allwyn, Brook Byron, Hall Johnson Choir, Berton Churchill, Paul Stanton, Julius Tannen, John Carradine, Billy McClain, Jack Clifford, Betty Jean Hainey, Arthur Aylesworth, Leonard Kibrick, Walter Weidler, George Weidler, Jesse Scott, Thurman Black, Herbert Ashley, Margaret Bloodgood, Wade Boteler, A.S. 'Pop' Byron, Eddie Coke, Walter Dennis, Homer Dickenson, Douglas Fowley, Alex Hirschfield, Fred Kelsey, Edward LeSaint, Wilfred Lucas, Harry McCrillis, Francis McDonald, Tom McGuire, Bob Murphy, Maybelle Palmer, Frank Silva, Charles Tannen, David Thursby, Martin Turner, William H. Turner, Fred Wallace, William A. Seiter, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin
• Director: William A. Seiter
• Runtime: 1:18
• Media Format: Movie