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3	''The Little Princess'' is a 1939 drama film directed by Walter Lang and starring Creator/ShirleyTemple, loosely adapted from the novel ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' by Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett.
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5	Temple's first Technicolor film, and her last box-office hit as a child star, it is now in the PublicDomain due to Fox failing to renew its copyright.
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8	!!This film provides examples of:
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10	* AdaptedOut: Along with many minor characters, Ermengarde and Lottie are missing, despite their importance to Sara in the original.
11	* AsideGlance: Shirley Temple looks right at the camera as the film ends.
12	* DeusExMachina: Or rather, extremely powerful convenient visitor. When Sara finds the hospital that may contain her wounded, amnesiac father, she is allowed to search it after asking a very old, important-looking woman for permission. Upon thanking her for this, Sara asks the woman's name, and then blushes and curtsies when she responds: [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria "Victoria."]] It's a heartwarming moment, and kind of stops anyone this side of God from keeping father and daughter apart one second longer.
13	* DisneyDeath: Sara's father is reported dead, then turns out to still be alive.
14	* DreamSequence: Sara has an elaborate dream in which she actually is a princess, and Miss Minchin is an evil witch.
15	* GenderFlip: Miss Amelia, the sister of Miss Minchin, become her brother Hubert. Justified as Hubert decided to enroll in the army and serve as a contact for Sara in the military hospital, given this adaptation has added a war context.
16	* HaveAGayOldTime: Captain Crewe requests that Sara's room at the seminary be made "as gay as possible." We're talking about an all-girls school.
17	* KarmaHoudini: Miss Minchin. All we see happen to her is a look of utter shock upon learning Sara's father is still alive.
18	* MissedHimByThatMuch: At one point Sara turns a corner and goes in one direction while her father is wheeled out of his room and sent down the hallway in the opposite direction.
19	* PrettyInMink: Sara wears a blue coat with an ermine collar and ermine muff.
20	* ShellShockedVeteran: One of the soldiers in the hospital is making paper dolls.
21	* SparedByTheAdaptation: Sara's father is alive. He's horribly injured, but alive.
22	* SpoiledSweet: Sara has clearly been ridiculously spoiled but is still as sweet as Shirley Temple always was.
23	* TrueBlueFemininity: Sara is first seen in a blue coat (with an ermine collar) and hat.
24	* TitleDrop: "She's just like a little princess, isn't she?"
25	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Becky is last seen being captured by the police while Sara escapes.

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