The Little Princess 1939 123movies

Watch: The Little Princess 1939 123movies, Full Movie Online – When her father, Captain Crewe, goes off to fight in the Boer War, young Sara Crewe is placed into the care of Amanda Minchin, the head of an exclusive private school for girls. Sara lives a wonderful life of a privileged child and is quite happy in her surroundings. When her father is listed as missing in action however, her life goes from one of plenty to that of a poor house maid. Mrs. Minchin agrees to keep her on at the school, but in the absence of her tuition payments, she has to work for her keep. She is soon cleaning out the fireplace and scrubbing floors and is dubbed the little princess by her former schoolmates. She also refuses to accept that her father is dead and prowls the hospitals in the hope of locating him. Luck – and Royal intervention – assist her in her quest..
Plot: A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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	7.1/10 Votes: 6,265
	88% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 89 Popularity: 8.32 | TMDB

Reviews:

Quite Possibly Shirley’s Best Ever!
Between the ages of 7 and 10, little Shirley Temple was the biggest box office star in the world. But as she grew older, her popularity quickly began to wane. At 11 (though she believed herself to be 10 because her mother shaved a year off her age), Shirley was still quite a child when she made “The Little Princess.” But because she was no longer as cute and cherubic as she was at 6, when “Stand Up and Cheer!” first made her a star, it was to be her last successful film in a children’s role.

As Sara (a Hebrew name meaning “princess”), Shirley plays her standard rags-to-riches storyline in reverse: Sara’s wealthy widowed father loses everything in the Boer War, and her cruel boarding school headmistress Miss Minchin makes her an underfed, overworked servant girl to pay the tuition debt her father owed. Sara goes from luxurious rooms and private tutors to friendless, freezing attics as suddenly as the swinging America of the 1920s sank into the dust storms, breadlines, and squattervilles of the 1930’s Great Depression. But where did poor Americans turn to briefly forget all these problems during the Great Depression? To the movies, where Shirley Temple, her unwavering hopefulness (as present in “The Little Princess” as in any of her movies), and her cute song-and-dance numbers — with titles like “Laugh, You Son of a Gun” (1934), “You Gotta Smile to be Happy” (1936), “Be Optimistic” (1938), and “Come and Get Your Happiness” (1938) — cheered up the entire nation. The same singing and dancing cheers up Sara Crewe while she’s working as a galley slave in 1899 London, as Shirley performs “The Old Kent Road” with her pal Arthur Treacher (her four-time co-star).

In short, “The Little Princess” is Shirley Temple’s career in a nutshell. It is a must-see film for both longtime Shirley fans and newcomers.

“Mums the word you know!”
As a kid in parochial school in the late Fifties, an occasional treat called for assembling all eight grades in the auditorium for an afternoon of movies, and I recall Shirley Temple showing up more than once. I don’t know if “The Little Princess” might have been one of them, but in any case, she was always a favorite. Shirley may not have had all of the cuteness factor here that was on display in her earlier roles, but there’s no denying her talent and presence; when she’s on screen, no one else matters. The story here turns somewhat morose when Sara Crewe (Temple) learns her father (Ian Hunter) dies in the Boer War. That’s a tough thing to put a kid through, young viewers that is, not the actress. Relating too much to the possibility of a parent’s dying isn’t exactly the most cheerful subject, so first time viewers of the film are left on the hook for a while until a more successful resolution is arrived at. Along with Shirley, I was also rooting for her compatriot Sybil Jason as the poor, young chambermaid who took a liking to Sara and had the feeling returned in good measure. Interestingly, the Little Princess part of the story was brought into sharper focus when Shirley’s character met Queen Victoria (Beryl Mercer), allowing the viewer to consider two different kinds of royalty.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 33 min (93 min) (TCM print)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Comedy, Drama, Family
Director Walter Lang, William A. Seiter
Writer Ethel Hill, Walter Ferris, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Actors Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor
Film Length 2,634.7 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm