A Little Princess
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Written by Richard Lagravanese, Elizabeth Chandler
Starring Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Liesel Matthews
Release Date May 10th, 1995
A Little Princess was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1905 as an expansion on a series of novellas Burnett had written for St. Nicholas Magazine. The movie industry found A Little Princess for the first time in 1917 as a silent picture starring Mary Pickford in the role of Sara Crewe and Zasu Pitts as her friend Becky. Most notably, the silent A Little Princessfeatured a screenplay by Frances Marion, one of the first women to write for the movies.
Then in 1939 A Little Princess received it’s most iconic film rendering with the legendary Shirley Temple in the role of Sara Crew the daughter of privilege whose life is upended by her father’s tragic death leaving her penniless and at the mercy of the cruel boarding school headmistress, Miss Minchin played by Mary Nash. The 1939 version of A Little Princess was produced in ‘glorious Technicolor’ by master showman Daryl F. Zanuck.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
