The Little Princess

A girl named Sara endures hardship after her father dies and she becomes a servant before ultimately being reunited with him and gaining her fortune back. The Little Princess is a 1939 American English-language Comedy Drama movie featuring Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Arthur Treacher, Cesar Romero and Clare Verdera. The movie is inspired from A Little Princess 1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Little Princess was Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Gene Markey. The movie is directed by Walter Lang. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. The Little Princess was released on 17th March 1939 and takes a screen time of 93 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. The Little Princess was made on a budget of $1 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $8 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris. Cinematography was done by Arthur C. Miller and William Skall and editing by Louis Loeffler. The music was composed by Charles Maxwell along with Cyril J. Mockridge, Herbert W. Spencer and Samuel Pokrass.