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• Actors: Shirley Temple, John Boles, Rochelle Hudson, Jane Darwell, Rafaela Ottiano
• Directors: Irving Cummings
• Writers: Arthur J. Beckhard, James Parrott, Jean Webster, Patterson McNutt, Sonya Levien
• Producers: Winfield R. Sheehan
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301802500
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,529 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Item Name: Curly Top; Studio: 20th Century Fox

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This movie is a great film!, January 8, 2000

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This review is from: Shirley Temple: Curly Top [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Curly (Shirley Temple ) and her sister Mary are secretly adopted by Mr. Jones. Curly adds joy to Mr. Jones life while Mary falls in love with Mr. Jones. Curly sings and dances through-out the movie with some of her best songs yet. She sings "When I Grow-up" and "Animal Crackers in my Soup". Mary and Mr. Jones also sing and play a few songs as well. There are a few comic moments and the ending is a happy one. This film is apporiate for people of all ages and a film everyone can watch over and over again. Curly Top is wonderfully cheographed and has a great moral to the story.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GOTTA BE ONE OF SHIRLEY'S BEST., November 25, 2001

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Elaine J. Campbell (Rancho Mirage, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Curly Top [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Shirley Temple, whose career as a child star was over by the age of 10 (and who, according to her very good autobiography, reaped a mere $18.00 from it when she asked her father for her reapings upon her second marriage), shines and super-shines in this adorable and heart-rending film.

She and her sister are orphans. A mysterious benefactor adopts them and they enter a life of luxury, but also a life of love. Rochelle Hudson is delicately beautiful as the sister, and John Boles is excellent and exceedingly handsome. I wonder what happened to them both?

"Animal Crackers" and "When I Grow Up" are the top numbers, as well as several sung by Boles and Hudson. All works out as it should be.

There's just something very moving about this movie. It's a genuine heart-tugger.

And Shirley is simply a delight! So glad the camera caught this amazing little girl with such a natural talent shining through her girlhood.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Shirley's best films., August 22, 1999

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This review is from: Shirley Temple: Curly Top [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Shirley plays a mischevious, singing-and-dancing orphan with an older, protecting sister who stays in the same orphanage with her. A wealthy trustee adopts them, telling them that their real guardian, "Mr. Jones", is away and that he will be taking care of them for awhile, so they won't have to thank him for his works. The trustee, their real guardian, falls in love with older sister Mary and little Shirley plays Cupid for the two. Includes "Curly Top", "The Simple Things in Life", "Animal Crackers in My Soup", and "When I Grow Up".