Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 30, 1935

The Littlest Rebel (Twentieth Century-Fox). Cinema folk have lately been telling one another that Shirley Temple and Abraham Lincoln would make "an unbeatable combination." Definitely un beatable, the combination is well planted in this picture. When the Great Emancipator (Frank McGlynn Sr.) receives in his office Virgie Carey, "The Littlest Rebel of Them All," accompanied by her faithful black servitor, it is to plank the child on his desk, share an apple with her and hear from her the sad old story about the dashing Confederate scout (John Boles) who happens to be...

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