Baby Burlesks

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Baby Burlesks was a series of Pre-Code short films produced by Educational Pictures in the early 1930s.^[1] The series featured three-year-old Shirley Temple in her first screen appearances. In her autobiography, Temple describes the Baby Burlesks series as "a cynical exploitation of our childish innocence," and that the short films were sometimes racist or sexist.^[2]

Filmography

All eight films in the Baby Burlesks series were produced by Jack Hays and directed by Charles Lamont, except the first, Runt Page, which was directed by Ray Nazarro.^[3] As a star, Temple, received $10 a day.^[4] In 2009, all eight films were available on videocassette and DVD.

• Runt Page
• War Babies
• Pie Covered Wagon
• Glad Rags to Riches
• Kid in Hollywood
• The Kid's Last Fight
• Polly Tix in Washington
• Kid 'in' Africa

See also

• Shirley Temple filmography

References

Works cited

• Black, Shirley Temple (1988), Child Star: an Autobiography, New York: Warner Books, Inc., ISBN 0-446-35792-8
• Edwards, Anne (1988), Shirley Temple: American Princess, New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
• Windeler, Robert (1992) [1978], The Films of Shirley Temple, New York: Carol Publishing Group, pp. 17, 111–129, ISBN 0-8065-0725-X

External links

• The Runt Page at IMDb
• The Pie-Covered Wagon at IMDb
• Glad Rags to Riches at IMDb
• Kid in Hollywood at IMDb
• The Kid's Last Fight at the Internet Movie Database
• Polly Tix in Washington at IMDb
• Kid 'in Africa at IMDb
• War Babies at the Internet Archive
• Partial script from Polly-Tix in Washington at the IMDB