After a string of episodes, including a performance of the film's most well-known song " Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road", Sara is at her wits end. In her new role, Sara gets hungrier and more tired from her arduous duties and sneaks off to veterans' hospitals, convinced her father is not dead. She also receives support from Miss Minchin's brother Bertie, who does not agree with her treatment. Sara gains new solace in a friendship with Ram Dass, Lord Wickham's servant. Without her father's financial support, Sara becomes a servant, now working at the school she used to attend. During the party, Captain Crewe's solicitor arrives with the sad news that Captain Crewe has died and his real estate, the basis for his wealth, has been confiscated. Miss Minchin throws Sara a lavish birthday party. Sara hears news that Mafeking is free and expects her father will soon come home. Geoffrey, the riding instructor, who is also the grandson of the mean-spirited next door neighbor, Lord Wickham. It is during these riding lessons that Sara helps contrive meetings between Miss Rose, her teacher, and Mr. With all the money Captain Crewe can offer, Miss Minchin gives Sara a fancy, private room.Īlthough worried about her father, Sara is distracted by riding lessons.
Ĭaptain Crewe, called to fight in the Second Boer War, has to leave his daughter Sara ( Shirley Temple) with her pony at Miss Minchin's School for Girls. In 1968, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. The film's ending was drastically different from the book. Temple also appeared in an extended ballet sequence. Temple and Arthur Treacher had a musical number together, performing the song " Knocked 'Em in the Old Kent Road". Īlthough it maintained the novel's Victorian London setting, the film introduced several new characters and storylines and used the Second Boer War and the siege of Mafeking as a backdrop to the action. It was also her last major success as a child star. The film was the first Shirley Temple movie to be filmed completely in Technicolor. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang.
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