When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple her mother used to work for. A custody battle soon ensues between an aviator who adores the little girl and the couple's crotchety Uncle Ned.
Directed by
David Butler
Written by
David Butler (story); Edwin J. Burke (story); William M. Conselman (writer); Henry Johnson (special sequence) (uncredited).
Starring
Shirley Temple (Shirley Blake); James Dunn (James 'Loop' Merritt); Jane Darwell (Mrs. Elizabeth Higgins); Judith Allen (Adele Martin); Lois Wilson (Mary Blake); Charles Sellon (Uncle Ned Smith); Walter Johnson (Thomas, Chauffeur); Jane Withers (Joy Smythe); Theodore von Eltz (J. Wellington Smythe (as Theodor von Eltz)); Dorothy Christy (Anita Smythe); Brandon Hurst (Higgins); George Irving (Judge Thompson). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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