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
Second weekend in box office performance can fall 60 percent," highlighting "Wonder Woman"s second-weekend drop of 45% as "scant" compared to others in the genre. The box office website "Box Office Mojo" ranks the following films by biggest second weekend drops during their wide release in the United States, which means screening in at least . The website bases its ranking on box office performance data from 1982 onward. The 2012 family film "The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure", though not in wide release, set a record for biggest second-weekend drop. It opened in and grossed $443,901 over the opening weekend. In its second weekend,