Shirley Temple - This Is a Happy Little Ditty

Shirley Temple - This Is a Happy Little Ditty - 1938

Cast:
Shirley Temple as Penny Hale
Joan Davis as Kitty
Charles Farrell as Jeff Hale
Amanda Duff as Lola Ramsby
Bill Robinson as Cpl. Jones
Bert Lahr as Gus
Franklin Pangborn as Waters
Cora Witherspoon as Aunt Julia Ramsby
Claude Gillingwater as Samuel G. Henshaw
Benny Bartlett as Milton Ramsby
Brooks Benedict as Reporter
Orville Caldwell as Henshaw assistant
Eddie Conrad as French tutor
Hal K. Dawson as Reporter
Helen Dickson as Mrs. Ramsby's Card Playing Friend
Mary Forbes as Miss Vincent
Jack Gargan as Reporter
Harold Goodwin as Reporter
J. Anthony Hughes as Henshaw assistant
Leonard Kibrick as Gang Member
Sidney Kibrick as Gang Member
Marilyn Knowlden as Gwendolyn
Ethan Laidlaw as Police Detective with Machine Gun
Paul McVey as Mr. Black
Edgar Norton as Mrs. Ramsby's Butler
Billy Wayne as Laundry Attendant
Charles Williams as Candid cameraman

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Shirley Temple
• Just Around the Corner

[lynxluver719]

what movie is this??

[sarahluvsshirley]

@lynxluver719 "Just Around The Corner"

[MDRavensOrioleGal26]

This tune was in "The Little Princess" with Shirley Temple and Arthur Treacher!

[sarahluvsshirley]

@MDRavensOrioleGal26 Wrong.

[kamarza]

I love this number soo cut, even if the music isn't that pretty hahah, well for me it is pretty :-D

[alexisandcollinfanxo]

yes i can sing it all day long! love this song.

[schlettstadt]

The musical arrangement during the dance sequence with Bill Robinson is so catchy! Just love it! Thank you for posting this delightful clip.

[jusaLOSER]

THIS is AWESOME! i know that bad singing when i hear it! ITS THE COWARDLY LION!!!!! Bert Lahr!!! was his voice purposely shaky like that or did he have to sing that way in this AND Wizard of Oz???

[angelsgurl]

if you cannot bend over without your ass showing the dress is too short

[SuperVampireGal]

i like the doorman or what ever his job is

[bocciatatrevolte]

film antirazziali. pensateci gente

[enpointegirl]

@lynxluver719 just around the corner

[polkaspots231]

@daangmacy plus it was also just her thing and thats why it continued through her child-hood movies

[polkaspots231]

@daangmacy it was the style then for small children (girls) to have the short dresses with the bloomer type shorts..unlike today hers looks cute and professional..not trashy and degrading..

[daangmacy]

Her dresses were always so short, haha.

[hebneh]

The film is "Just Around The Corner". It was originally black & white, and this has been colorized.

This streamlined, shiny-floored set is supposed to be the basement of a New York apartment building. This particular area is a purported dog run. The 3 adults work in the building, and Shirley is disrupting their schedule, which is why they run off when the manager (Franklin Pangborn) catches them at the very end.

Bill Robinson's entry down the stairway is really great! I've always liked it.

[eojadiius]

@blacklavoux haaahahahha characture

[polkaspots231]

At 00:50 or so are they supposed to be alternating or together? I have always wondered. They look like it got off yet it looks like it works too.

[blacklavoux]

why is he singing like that? ahahhaaaa

[2complex4only1name]

My childhood! It's so beautiful. =')

[ashleeL1994]

just realized the guy in this song was The Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz.

[Magic9053]

@jwrocks His name is Bill Robinson AKA Mr Bojangles and he taught Shirley all her moves

[Magic9053]

@juansebasjs Yes it is, "Bert Laur"

[JdeppHatter17]

3:16 OMG its the organist in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm!

[bmoore0205]

@AdventursOfGullybear she's 10 i believe

[juansebasjs]

Is that guy the lion from the Wizard of Oz?

[AdventursOfGullybear]

how old is she here?

[PrueStar]

retreat now ..explain later lol

[dolphin330]

@jwrocks I believe the Black dancer is Bill Robinson, one of the greatest dancers ever.

[jwrocks]

and hold up a sec, isn't that buba from forest gump?