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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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