Bright Eyes (1934)
Starring Shirley Temple, with Charles Sellon — completely upstaged by uber-brat Jane Withers. I'm starting to see where PeeWee Herman got some of his moves!
One of the best rat-a-tat-tat's is between the Indulgent Mom and her Spoiled Child:
Anita Smythe: Now, dear, practice your piano and Mama will buy you something nice.
Joy Smythe: What?
Anita Smythe: Anything you like. What do you especially want?
Joy Smythe: A machine gun!
Withers was cast- and everyone else sent home- the moment the director, David Butler, heard her impression of a machine gun.
Bright Eyes was quite the splash for our Shirley. She won the first "child's" Oscar and made a hit out of the film's classic tune, "The Good Ship Lollypop." It was 1934's big Christmas movie. Even the dog in the show was a star- the same pooch played Toto in The Wizard of Oz!
