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May 25, 2017 · What movies like Littlest Colonel did was start to crack the ice. A quick plunge right into everything being racially equal would have resulted in more push-back than there was. But what they did was start to ease people into accepting black people as being human beings.
Modern criticism. Bill Gibron, of the Online Film Critics Society, wrote: "The racism present in The Littlest Rebel, The Little Colonel and Dimples is enough to warrant a clear critical caveat."
Feb 11, 2014 · Feb 11, 2014. Child star Shirley Temple Black’s life may have taken different turns in adulthood, including ambassador stints to Czechoslovakia and Ghana, but, in death, her on-screen...
Feb 14, 2014 · Take The Littlest Rebel, in 1935: Temple plays a tiny Southern belle. Film historian Donald Bogle says what's troubling about the movie is that Robinson's character — a slave during the Civil...
- Elizabeth Blair
In “The Littlest Rebel”, “The Little Colonel”, “Just Around the Corner” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”, Ms. Temple plays the daughter of a slave-owning family.
"The Littlest Rebel" begins in an insanely over-idealized view of the South during the time of slavery. Little Virgie (Shirley Temple) is having a birthday party and all the slaves on the plantation are thrilled to be allowed to serve her!
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During Hollywood’s prime era of cinematic racism in the 1930s, Shirley Temple starred in four films alongside renowned Black performer, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson: The Little Colonel (1935), The Littlest Rebel (1935), Just Around the Corner (1938) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook
