Shirley Temple in an early feature film
“Little Miss Marker” is the film that sent Shirley Temple’s career into third gear. Based on a story by Damon Runyon, it is filled with hardened characters who encounter a little girl whose innocence and charm work their magic. A kind of cynical comedy, it’s the rare Temple movie in which she isn’t the focus.<br /><br />A widowed, compulsive gambler (Edward Earle), convinced he has a sure thing in an upcoming horse race, gives his little girl, Marthy Jane (Temple), to bookie Sorrowful Jones (Adolphe Menjou) as security for a bet. But the horse loses and the father commits suicide. Stuck with the kid, Sorrowful is about to turn her over to the authorities when he learns that the stables of smalltime gangster Big Steve Holloway (Charles Bickford) have been banned from racing just as a fixed race has been arranged. Rather than abandon plans for the race, Sorrowful gets the horse — Dream Prince — registered in Marthy’s name.<br /><br />Nightclub singer Bangles Carson (Dorothy Dell) is Big Steve’s mistress. She becomes charmed by Marthy just as Sorrowful undergoes assorted misadventures trying to take care of the moppet he calls “Marky.”  Sorrowful and Bangles are drawn together with some unsubtle help from Marky.<br /><br />Marky serves as a plot device in the primary tale of Sorrowful, Bangles and their growing attachment to one another. With gamblers, smalltime thugs, and colorful Runyon-style New York types populating the film, Marky is the catalyst that brings changes not only to the characters but to their lifestyle. This may sound syrupy sentimentality but the screenplay never veers into sappiness.<br /><br />“Little Miss Marker” is probably the only film in which Shirley Temple doesn’t dance. She does sing a ditty, and the amazing talent that elevated  her to stardom is apparent in her natural ease with dialogue and ability to hold her own with far more experienced actors. Temple convinces us that, despite having been abandoned by her father and shuttled around like a doll, Marky nonetheless remains optimistic and brings joy to those around her with her smile and sweetness.<br /><br />Menjou, who usually played suave, distinguished roles, is cast against type as the shabby bookie tight with a buck. There’s good chemistry between him and Temple, and we can see the cold heart of Sorrowful melting when he’s with Marky. He finds her exasperating but also irresistibly charming. Balancing his typically sour attitude with his growing affection for the little girl keeps the film from becoming saccharine.<br /><br />Dorothy Dell, 25 years younger than Menjou, plays Bangles as a tough broad who has never completely broken with the lovable kid she once was until circumstances drove her to the underworld. Try as she does to fight it, she finds herself, like Sorrowful, under the spell of Marky. Sadly, Dell would die in a fatal automobile accident a week after shooting this film.<br /><br />“Little Miss Marker” parades an assortment of Runyon characters in a world of bookies and others who live in the shadow of the law. That milieu is created by director Alexander Hall, who milks the “fish out of water” theme when Marky enters the mix. Confident, innocent, and clever, she affects others in surprising ways, reaching them on an emotional level.<br /><br />“Little Miss Marker” was remade three times — as “Sorrowful Jones” (1939) starring Bob Hope, “40 Pounds of Trouble” (1962) with Tony Curtis, and “Little Miss Marker” (1980) co-starring Walter Matthau and Julie Andrews.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the unrated Blu-ray release include an audio commentary and 4 trailers.<br /><br />Though “Little Miss Marker” was a hit when it was originally released, it’s not regarded today as one of Shirley Temple’s best-loved films. Stage-bound, with opportunities missed to film some scenes at racetracks, the film does exploit Temple’s considerable cinematic charm. In the many other film versions of “Little Miss Marker,” no child actor in the same role made as memorable an impression. Paramount borrowed Temple for this picture, but it is her home studio - Fox - that would tailor-make films with her as star, catapulting the young actress to international fame.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : In one of her earliest and most popular roles, the adorable Shirley Temple (Now and Forever) single-handedly melts the hearts of a gang of hardened gamblers when she is left as an IOU or “marker” for a debt. Adolphe Menjou (The Front Page) stars as a jaded head bookie, “Sorrowful” Jones, who winds up playing reluctant papa to the curly-topped waif and soon falls under her spell. Helping Sorrowful with the rigors of instant fatherhood is the beautiful Bangles Carson (Dorothy Dell, Wharf Angel), a nightclub singer whose racketeer boyfriend Big Steve (Charles Bickford, White Woman) is big trouble! Based on a story by Damon Runyon (Guys and Dolls) and directed by Alexander Hall (Torch Singer, Goin’ to Town), this heartwarming tale of love, faith and new beginnings will delight the whole family and make you believe in miracles!.