LITTLE MISS MARKER

Little Miss Marker
(aka "Damon Runyon's Little Miss Marker")
Paramount, 1934, B/W, 79 minutes, ***
Released June, 1934

The classic Damon Runyon tale received its first -- and most-beloved -- cinematic treatment with Shirley Temple as the cute youngster left to bookie Adolphe Menjou as a gambling marker. Her influence leads Menjou to try to mend his ways and marry his nightclub singer girlfriend. Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford also star.

Producer: B. P. Schulberg
Directed by: Alexander Hall
Screen Play by: William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman and Gladys Lehman
From a story by: Damon Runyon
Musical Score: Ralph Rainger
Music by: Ralph Rainger
Lyrics by: Leo Robin
Art Direction: Hans Dreier, John B. Goodman
Sound: Earl S. Hayman
Photographed by: Alfred Gilks
Film Editing: William Shea

Cast: Shirley Temple [Little Miss Marker ("Marky")], Adolphe Menjou [Sorrowful Jones], Charles Bickford [Big Steve], Dorothy Dell [Bangles Carson], Lynne Overman [Regret], Warren Hymer [Sore Toe], Sam Hardy [Bennie, the Gouge], John Kelly [Canvas Back], Frank McGlynn, Sr. [Doc Chesley], John Sheehan [Sun Rise], Frank Conroy [Dr. Ingalls], Additional Cast: Garry Owen [Grinder], Willie Best [Dizzy Memphis], Pudgy White [Eddie White], Tammany Young [Buggs], Edward Earle [Marky's Father], James Burke [Detective Reardon], Mildred Gover [Sarah], Lucille Ward [Mrs. Walsh], Crauford Kent [Doctor], Nora Cecil [Head of Home Finding Society], Ernie Adams [Bettor], Don Brodie [Bettor], Stanley Price [Bookie]

Musical Program: [0:11] I'm a Black Sheep Who's Blue (sung by Dorothy Dell in club, short portion shuffled by Willie Best); [0:34] Low Down Lullaby (sung by Dorothy Dell as she tucks Shirley into bed); [0:40] Laugh You Son of a Gun (sung by Shirley Temple and Dorothy Dell at the Piano); [1:06] The Sidewalks of New York (East Side, West Side) (excerpt sung by Party Ensemble); [1:08] The Bowery (excerpt sung by Party Ensemble)