Comedy · Family
Little Miss Marker
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
Top Cast
Shirley Temple
Marthy Jane aka 'Marky'
Adolphe Menjou
Sorrowful Jones
Charles Bickford
Big Steve Halloway
Dorothy Dell
Bangles Carson
Warren Hymer
Sore Toe
Lynne Overman
Regret
Sam Hardy
Bennie the Gouge
John Kelly
Canvas Back
Directed by
Alexander Hall
Production
Paramount PicturesReviews
Kandarr
10/109/5/2017
This movie really threw Shirley Temple into the spotlight, and for good reason. She hits every note perfectly, and showed that she had what it took to move beyond shorts and into feature films. The problems that Little Miss Marker suffers from are mostly caused by the times. The sound is pretty bad throughout the movie, the levels are all over the place, and the acting from a few characters is completely over the top. Of course, that's all due from the movie being made in 1934. The entire industry was still figuring out the whole sound thing, and this film is definitely a reminder of that. However, Little Miss Marker is still a heartwarming little movie with memorable performances and a solid story.
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