Curly Top (film) Institute in these lists: Curly Top (film) Curly Top is a 1935 American musical film directed by Irving Cummings. The screenplay by Patterson McNutt and Arthur J. Beckhard focuses on the adoption of a young orphan (Shirley Temple) by a wealthy bachelor (John Boles) and his romantic attraction to her older sister (Rochelle Hudson). Together with "The Littlest Rebel", another Temple vehicle, the film was listed as one of the top box office draws of 1935 by "Variety". The film's musical numbers include "Animal Crackers in My Soup" and "When I Grow Up". This film was the first of four
Box office information for films was not readily available until National Gross Service started to collate this data around 1981. The collation of grosses led to wider reporting of domestic box office grosses for films. Arthur D. Murphy at "Variety" was one of the first to organize and chart that information and report it in a meaningful form. During the 1980s, Daily "Variety" started to publish a weekly chart of the domestic box office grosses of films as compared to the Top 50 chart in "Variety" which was based on a sample of key markets. Gradually the focus of a film's performance