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28 December 1934 (USA)
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An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody. full summary | full synopsis
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The studios need to reissue Jane Withers' films
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Shirley Temple | ... | Shirley Blake |
 | James Dunn | ... | Loop Merritt |
| Jane Darwell | ... | Mrs. Higgins |
| Judith Allen | ... | Adele Martin |
| Lois Wilson | ... | Mary Blake |
| Charles Sellon | ... | Uncle Ned Smith |
| Walter Johnson | ... | Thomas |
| Jane Withers | ... | Joy Smythe |
| Theodore von Eltz | ... | J. Wellington Smythe (as Theodor von Eltz) |
| Dorothy Christy | ... | Anita Smythe |
| Brandon Hurst | ... | Higgins |
 | George Irving | ... | Judge Thompson |
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85 min (FMC Library Print)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
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Director David Butler wrote the story based on an incident that happened in his childhood. His parents had advertised for a live-in maid, and a woman answered the ad who had just arrived from Scotland. She had a little girl and was separated from her husband - an unusual circumstance at the time - and said she wouldn't take the job unless her daughter was allowed to live in the house with her, also an unusual circumstance at the time. Butler's parents agreed, and the woman and her daughter moved in with the family.
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Revealing mistakes: During the song "On the Good Ship Lollipop" while the plane is taxiing you can see the edge of the screen where they are projecting the outside. This is most obvious when she sings the line "...and there you are..." just after "Cracker Jack Bands fill the air" the first time.
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James 'Loop' Merritt:
Shirley, would you like to go back to the Smythes' house and live there?
Shirley Blake: Do I have to?
Adele Martin: For a little while, dear.
Shirley Blake: Are you gonna be there, too?
Adele Martin: Yes, I am, dear, and we'll be together every day.
Shirley Blake: Well, if you'll be there, it'll be fine. I like you, and I like Mr. Smith.
James 'Loop' Merritt: All right, then, it's all settled.
Shirley Blake: Can't Loop come and live with us, too?
Adele Martin: No, dear. Just at the moment, I'm afraid that can't be arranged.
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Shirley Blake: Do I have to?
Adele Martin: For a little while, dear.
Shirley Blake: Are you gonna be there, too?
Adele Martin: Yes, I am, dear, and we'll be together every day.
Shirley Blake: Well, if you'll be there, it'll be fine. I like you, and I like Mr. Smith.
James 'Loop' Merritt: All right, then, it's all settled.
Shirley Blake: Can't Loop come and live with us, too?
Adele Martin: No, dear. Just at the moment, I'm afraid that can't be arranged.
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Referenced in "Gilmore Girls: Rory's Birthday Parties (#1.6)" (2000)
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On the Good Ship Lollipop
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Jane Withers, at age four, started as one of the deep South's most popular radio stars on Aunt Sally's Kiddy Club. She was so small she had to be lifted up to reach the microphone. She was the mischief-maker of the Kiddy Club program, called "The Little Pest". Like Mitzi Green, she had an uncanny ability to imitate the voices and facial expressions of actors, actresses and other people, something she learned playing with the mirror. On stage by age five, she became a famous actress throughout the South, finally moving to Hollywood at five-and-a-half. In Hollywood, Jane began by playing in a weekly radio-revue and gave numerous stage performances for beneficial organizations.
"Bright Eyes" was Jane's first credited movie role and led to a long-term contract with Twentieth Century-Fox. She stared in numerous movies of the thirties, and was Shirley Temple's main competition. Jane was one of the great child actresses of all times, very popular with the children of her era, and after watching Shirley's goodie two-shoes act in Bright Eyes playing against Jane's power-house comedy performance, I can see why. Shirley Temple was her usual cute, sugar-coated, man-worshiping self with everyone giggling politely at her jokes except the audience. In contrast, Jane Withers had my daughter and I laughing our heads off until we had stomach-aches. Jane in Bright Eyes was bratty, adorable and hilarously funny. Her brat act has seldom, if ever, been equaled in the annals of film.
It is really a shame, and I hope the studios who own Jane Withers' many films as a child take note, that Bright Eyes is the only Jane Withers performance to survive to contemporary video. What ever happened to her movies "Ginger", Paddy O'Day", "Gentle Julia", "Little Miss Nobody", "Can This be Dixie?" and "Pepper"? In a published chat-room article Jane, who is still very much alive, says that she will eventually finish her book on her child star days. Like the kids of Our Gang, she remembers a fun, privileged childhood and has nothing in the way of sob stories. Let's hope that the studios will stop suppressing her films and release them on video soon, perhaps coinciding with her book.