Baby Burlesks (1932)
- Original title
- Runt Page
- Directed by
- Charles Lamont
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a series of short comedy films from the early 1930s. They feature a three-year-old Shirley Temple in her first movie roles. The shorts are playful on the surface but were later described by Temple as a cynical exploitation of childhood innocence.
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What happens
Baby Burlesks was a series of Pre-Code short films produced by Educational Pictures in the early 1930s. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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