Basically a contrived story designed to cash in on Fox's greatest box-office attraction of the time, Shirley Temple, POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL casts the moppet as Barbara, the daughter of widowed, wealthy soap manufacturer Richard Barry (Michael Whalen). When it's suggested that Barbara should
go to school, her nurse packs her off to the train station, but is involved in an accident on the way. This gives Barbara the chance to imitate her favorite heroine from the stories she has been reading, and she takes off on her own, tagging along with an organ grinder to his rooming house,
claiming to be an orphan. She meets Jerry and Jimmy Dolan (Alice Faye and Jack Haley), a m...
Released:
1936
Rated:
NR
Length:
72 mins