Little Miss Marker

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Little Miss Marker (1934)

06/01/1934 (US) Drama, Comedy, Family 1h 19m

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Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.

Alexander Hall

Director
Gladys Lehman

Screenplay
William R. Lipman

Screenplay
Sam Hellman

Screenplay
Damon Runyon

Story

Top Billed Cast

Shirley Temple

Marthy Jane aka 'Marky'
Adolphe Menjou

Sorrowful Jones
Charles Bickford

Big Steve Halloway
Dorothy Dell

Bangles Carson
Warren Hymer

Sore Toe
Lynne Overman

Regret
Sam Hardy

Bennie the Gouge
John Kelly

Canvas Back
Frank McGlynn Sr.

Doc Chesley
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A review by Kandarr

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Written by Kandarr on September 5, 2017

This movie really threw Shirley Temple into the spotlight, and for good reason. She hits every note perfectly, and showed that she had what it took to move beyond shorts and into feature films. The problems that Little Miss Marker suffers from are mostly caused by the times. The sound is pretty bad throughout the movie, the levels are all over the place, and the acting from a few characters is completely over the top. Of course, that's all due from the movie being made in 1934. The entire industry was still figuring out the whole sound thing, and this film is definitely a reminder of that. Howe... read the rest.

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