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
David Copperfield (1935 film) to "Anna Karenina"). According to MGM records the film earned $2,969,000 at the box office worldwide and made a profit of $686,000. It earned an additional $95,000 from a reissue in 1937-1938. It was the 20th most popular film at the British box office in 1935-36, after "Modern Times", "Lives of a Bengal Lancer", "Mutiny on the Bounty", "Top Hat", "The Great Ziegfeld", "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "Mr Deeds Goes to Town", "Show Boat", "Iron Duke", "Love Me Forever", "Sanders of the River", "Dark Angel", "The Ghost Goes West", "Follow the Fleet", "Swing Time", "Things to Come", "The 39 Steps", "Clive