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- Loosely based on a Damon Runyon short story, the second of a score adapted to the screen, the movie casts a cheerful and trusting little girl into the unlikely custody of a motley mob of raffish bookies, race-horse touts, gangsters, gold-diggers, pugs, mugs, and petty crooks.
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Little Miss Marker (also known as The Girl in Pawn) is an American pre-Code 1934 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Hall. It was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Lehman after a 1932 short story of the same name by Damon Runyon .
Loosely based on a Damon Runyon short story, the second of a score adapted to the screen, the movie casts a cheerful and trusting little girl into the unlikely custody of a motley mob of raffish bookies, race-horse touts, gangsters, gold-diggers, pugs, mugs, and petty crooks.
Little Miss Marker ★★★ Girl in Pawn 1934. Heartwarming story starring Temple as the title character, who is left with bookie Sorrowful Jones (Menjou) as the IOU for a gambling debt. But when her father doesn't return, it's up to Jones and his racetrack friends to make little Marky a home.
LITTLE MISS MARKER (Paramount, 1934), directed by Alexander Hall, from the story by Damon Runyon, became the studio's answer to Columbia's successful Runyon tale, LADY FOR A DAY (1933).
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- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Alexander Hall
- 1934-06-01
Dec 4, 2016 · LITTLE MISS MARKER (Paramount, 1934), directed by Alexander Hall, from the story by Damon Runyon, became the studio's answer to Columbia's successful Runyon tale, LADY FOR A DAY (1933).
Little Miss Marker (also known as The Girl in Pawn) is an American Pre-Code 1934 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Hall. It was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Lehman after a 1932 short story of the same name by Damon Runyon.
May 23, 2012 · It’s hard to believe that any character played by Shirley Temple would be in danger of losing her soul. But, in the 1934 comedy, Little Miss Marker, Temple’s sunny character slowly grows cynical and bitter. As a squeaky six year-old with a dark side, Temple is tremendous fun to watch.
