{"id":45843,"date":"2019-11-15T15:13:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T22:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=45843"},"modified":"2022-02-21T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T22:03:50","slug":"little-miss-marker-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=45843","title":{"rendered":"Little Miss Marker (1934)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I ain&#8217;t takin&#8217; no dolls for security!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Poster-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Poster-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Poster-1024x809.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Poster-128x101.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Poster-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Poster.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen a bookie (Adolphe Menjou) accepts the young daughter (Shirley Temple) of a suicidal gambler as collateral, he and the moll (Dorothy Dell) of a local gangster (Charles Bickford) end up caring for her &#8212; but when Temple starts to pick up bad habits and slang, they realize they must craft a recreation of King Arthur&#8217;s legend to restore her faith in magic.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adolphe Menjou Films<\/li>\n<li>Charles Bickford Films<\/li>\n<li>Gambling<\/li>\n<li>Gangsters<\/li>\n<li>Orphans<\/li>\n<li>Shirley Temple Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nShirley Temple made her cinematic lead debut in this adaptation of Damon Runyon&#8217;s short story, featuring such colorfully-named characters as Sorrowful Jones, Bangles, Big Steve, Regret, Sun Rise, Dizzy Memphis, Buggs, and Sore Toe &#8212; not to mention &#8220;Marky&#8221; herself (Temple), so-called because she&#8217;s handed over as a human <a href=\"https:\/\/ourpastimes.com\/casino-marker-6749755.html\">marker<\/a> for her dad&#8217;s gambling. This pre-Code flick doesn&#8217;t shy away from noting that Temple&#8217;s sour-luck dad kills himself from despondence &#8212; and while the entire tale eventually devolves into schmaltzy saccharine, at least it&#8217;s all befitting a Temple vehicle. (Who would want anything but the absolute best outcome for a girl as adorable as her?) Speaking of Temple, she really is charming &#8212; it&#8217;s easy to see why she was, and remained, such a favorite with audiences. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shirley Temple as &#8220;Marky&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Still2-1024x704.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-45844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Still2-1024x704.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Still2-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Still2-128x88.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Still2-768x528.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Little-Miss-Marker-Still2.png 1409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, once, for its historical relevance as Temple&#8217;s breakthrough role, and as the first cinematic adaptation of a Runyon story. Selected for preservation in the U.S. Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1998. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<li>Noteworthy Performance(s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0025410\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1934\/05\/19\/archives\/shirley-temple-adolphe-menjou-and-dorothy-dell-in-the-new-film-at.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/81554\/little-miss-marker#articles-reviews?articleId=18619\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I ain&#8217;t takin&#8217; no dolls for security!&#8221; Synopsis: When a bookie (Adolphe Menjou) accepts the young daughter (Shirley Temple) of a suicidal gambler as collateral, he and the moll (Dorothy Dell) of a local gangster (Charles Bickford) end up caring for her &#8212; but when Temple starts to pick up bad habits and slang, they realize they must craft a recreation of King Arthur&#8217;s legend to restore her faith in magic. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Adolphe Menjou Films Charles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=45843\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45843"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81511,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45843\/revisions\/81511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}