Glad Rags To Riches

16mm Film - Glad Rags to Riches - Shirley Temple - USA 1933

Written and directed by: Charles Lamont

Cinematography by: Dwight Warren

Music by: Alfonso Corelli

Starring: Eugene Butler, Marilyn Granas, Lawrence Harris, Georgie Smith, Shirley Temple

Glad Rags to Riches was released on February 5, 1933, and was distributed by Educational Film Exchanges. The 10-minute film stars Shirley Temple as Le Belle Diaperina, a Gay Nineties chanteuse at the Lullaby Lobster Palace who must decide whether to marry a rich nightclub owner or a country boy. The film features her first on-screen tap dance and song, "She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage". Others in the cast are Eugene Butler as the Nightclub Owner, Lawrence Harris as a Policeman, Marilyn Granas as the Maid, Georgie Smith as Elmer, Nell's boyfriend, and Dorian Samson as security guard.
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Shirley Temple in that same series as War Babies.

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