The Little Princess (1939) | Directed by Walter Lang - Full Movie

A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, when her father fights in the Second Boer War. Later, when he is presumed dead she is forced to become a servant.

The Little Princess is a 1939 American drama film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris is loosely based on the 1905 novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film was the first Shirley Temple movie to be filmed completely in Technicolor. It was also her last major success as a child star.

Although 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. Temple and Arthur Treacher had a musical number together, performing the song "Knocked 'Em in the Old Kent Road". Temple also appeared in an extended ballet sequence. The film's ending was drastically different from the book.

Directed by: Walter Lang
Screenplay by: Ethel Hill, Walter Ferris
Based on A Little Princess 1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Produced by: Darryl F. Zanuck, Gene Markey
Starring: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter
Arthur Treacher, Cesar Romero
Cinematography: Arthur C. Miller, William Skall
Edited by: Louis Loeffler
Music by: Charles Maxwell, Cyril J. Mockridge, Herbert W. Spencer, Samuel Pokrass
Distributed by: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date: March 10, 1939
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: over $1 million