Nine-year-old Hazel Ascot is a natural dancer, who taps her way down to breakfast. That's because her mother, Enid Stamp-Taylor is the daughter of old trouper Wilson Coleman, who's still putting on shows. Miss Stamp-Taylor is embarrassed by this because what plot would there be without it? When Miss Ascot wins an amateur competition run by her grandfather, will Miss Stamp-Taylor have her way, or will there be a big production number to end the movie?
Miss Ascot's publicity proclaimed her "the English Shirley Temple" for both her movies, and she's pretty good, as are the hundreds of other children who perform in this film. Her work is choreographed by her father, Duggie Ascot. It's a competent kiddie show-biz movie, with not a surprise in its 77 minutes, but director John Baxter supervises a pleasant shoot.
The copy I looked at was in awful shape. Unless you can put up with that, I'd give this one a miss, and look for her other movie, which, it is claimed, is on a disk.
Miss Ascot's publicity proclaimed her "the English Shirley Temple" for both her movies, and she's pretty good, as are the hundreds of other children who perform in this film. Her work is choreographed by her father, Duggie Ascot. It's a competent kiddie show-biz movie, with not a surprise in its 77 minutes, but director John Baxter supervises a pleasant shoot.
The copy I looked at was in awful shape. Unless you can put up with that, I'd give this one a miss, and look for her other movie, which, it is claimed, is on a disk.