Glad Rags to Riches (1933)

Director:

Charles Lamont

Release Date:

5 February 1933 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot:

A girl has to decide who to marry: a poor country boy or a rich nightclub owner. |

Plot Keywords:

Diaper

Cast

Eugene Butler	...	Nightclub Owner
Lawrence Harris	...	Policeman
Georgie Smith	...	Elmer
Shirley Temple	...	Nell / La Belle Diaperina

Runtime:

UK:10 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Jack Hays Productions

Trivia:

Third entry in the Baby Burlesk one-reel comedy series.

Quotes:

Nell: Why doesn't my sweetheart come and save me from this vile place?

Soundtrack:

A Bird in a Gilded Cage

A MINOR EXAMPLE OF SHIRLEY TEMPLE'S BUDDING TALENT.

This short one-reeler features Shirley Temple as Diaperina, heading a children-only cast of three-to-five year olds, performing in a broad burlesque as the star of a floor show at the "Lullaby Lobster Palace", dancing and singing "She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage", to represent her servitude to the evil nightclub owner (Georgie Smith). Directed by Charles Lamont, who is generally credited as being Temple's discoverer, and produced by Jack Hays, who put together most of her early Screencraft short features, this effort is intentionally silly, and there is little evidence among the disjointed episodes of the star's later self-possession, with wooden performances by the moppet players, although Eugene Butler is somewhat winning as Elmer, hayseed paramour of Diaperina, who has come to the big city to find and rescue her; of historic interest only.