Little Big Shot (1935)

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Writers:

Jerry Wald (screen play), Julius J. Epstein (screen play),

Stars:

Sybil Jason, Glenda Farrell, Robert Armstrong

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sybil Jason	...	Gloria
Glenda Farrell	...	Jean
Robert Armstrong	...	Steve
Edward Everett Horton	...	Mortimer
Jack La Rue	...	Doré (as Jack LaRue)
Arthur Vinton	...	Kell
J. Carrol Naish	...	Bert (as J. Carroll Naish)
Edgar Kennedy	...	Onderdonk
Addison Richards	...	Hank Gibbs
Joe Sawyer	...	Doré's Henchman (as Joseph Sauers)
Emma Dunn	...	Orphanage Matron
Ward Bond	...	Kell's Henchman
Tammany Young	...	Ralph Lewis - the Rajah
Murray Alper	...	Doré's Henchman
Marc Lawrence	...	Doré's Henchman

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

soda fountain | reward | judge | con artist | rehabilitation | 

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Taglines:

Get Acquainted With Her Now! Tomorrow you'll be asking when the next Sybil Jason picture comes to town.

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 September 1935 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Pequena Ditadora

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros., Vitaphone Corporation, The

Technical Specs

Runtime:

78 min 72 min (Turner library print)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Byron Haskin took over as director of photography when Tony Gaudio started work on Dr. Socrates.

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Soundtracks

"Outside of You"
(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played during the soda fountain scene

User Reviews

Damon Runyon again

Is this another Damon Runyon story, like "Little Miss Marker"? It all sounds too familiar. As far as giving way for the black kids in the film, look up Sybil Jason's biography and you might a bit of British Jewishness in there (her uncle Harry Jacobson was a British band leader), which didn't sit well with Hollywood in those days.

Maybe that's why she didn't get too far. I was born in Hollywood, BTW, and I know a lot of Hollywood stuff and stories. My schools were full of child actors, my mother went to junior high in Hollywood with Judy Garland, before going to the MGM Schoolhouse. And Ricardo Montalban was a classmate of my mother.

Glenda Farrell is gorgeous and glamorous, as always. And Edward Everett Horton as a soda jerk is hysterical.