A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that's looking for "a new Shirley Temple"..
Is it worth your time? If you have a weird fascination with 1930s studio desperation, maybe. If you’re looking for a coherent story or a movie that treats its child actors with, uh, sanity? Stay away. It’s definitely a curio for people who like to dig through the bargain bin of history. The whole premise is just wild....
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Joseph Santley
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a weird fascination with 1930s studio desperation, maybe. If you’re looking for a coherent story or a movie that treats its child actors with, uh, sanity? Stay away. It’s definitely a curio for people who like to dig through the bargain bin of history. The whole premise is just wild. A couple of broke vaudevillians realize the studio is hunting for a girl, so they just... throw a wig on their son and hope for the best. It’s the kind of logic that only makes se..."
Joseph Santley, John W. Krafft
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