The Little Colonel

The Little Colonel is a 1935 American comedy drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by William M. Conselman was adapted from the childrens novel of the same name by Annie Fellows Johnston, originally published in 1895. It focuses on the reconciliation of an estranged father and daughter in the years following the American Civil War. The film stars Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge, Bill Robinson, and Hattie McDaniel.

Shortly after the American Civil War, southern belle Elizabeth Lloyd Evelyn Venable marries a northerner, Jack Sherman John Lodge. Her father Colonel Lloyd Lionel Barrymore disowns her in anger and retaliation. Elizabeth and Jack move west where they become parents of a girl they name Lloyd Sherman.Six years later, Lloyd Sherman is made an honorary colonel in the Army. Elizabeth returns to the south with little Lloyd and settles in a cottage near Colonel Lloyds mansion while her husband Jack remains in the west prospecting for gold. When Colonel Lloyd discovers his daughter living in the neighborhood, he treats her with disdain. Little Lloyd learns of her parents past from housekeeper Mom Beck Hattie McDaniel, and, when she meets her grandfather for the first time, throws mud at him. The two eventually become contentious friends. ........

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