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Little Miss Roughneck (1938)
Directed by Aubrey Scotto
Overview
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia’s “answer” to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine’s agent, principally because he’s sweet on the girl’s older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother’s pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican “papacita” Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
Length 64 minutes
Actors
Edith Fellows | Leo Carrillo | Scott Kolk | Julie Bishop | Margaret Irving | Inez Palange | George McKay | Frank C. Wilson | John Gallaudet | Walter O. Stahl | Ivan Miller | Al Bridge | Wade Boteler | Guy Usher