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
The Devil Is a Woman (1935 film) a “lost” film, a personal copy of the work was provided by Sternberg for a screening at the 1959 Venice Film Festival. "The Devil is a Woman" received limited circulation in 1961. On May 5, 1935 The New York Times surprised the studio with a remarkably positive review describing the film "as the best product of the Dietrich-Sternberg alliance since "The Blue Angel". "The Devil is a Woman" is the last of von Sternberg’s seven quasi-autobiographical films that feature his star and muse, Marlene Dietrich. A box office failure, panned by contemporary critics for its perceived “caviar aestheticism and loose