
Stormy Weather(1943)
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.


“America's Little Sweetheart . . . The Dimpled Darling You Love in the Greatest of Civil War Dramas !”
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.

Shirley Temple
Virginia 'Virgie' Cary

John Boles
Capt. Herbert Cary

Jack Holt
Col. Morrison

Karen Morley
Mrs. Cary

Bill Robinson
Uncle Billy

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Sgt. Dudley

Willie Best
James Henry

Frank McGlynn Sr.
President Abraham Lincoln
Bessie Lyle
Mammy
Hannah Washington
Sally Ann
The Littlest Rebel is a comedy, drama, family, music, war film released in 1935 exploring themes of plantation, troops, tap dancing, father, jail, illness. Directed by David Butler, it stars Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt. Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
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