Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1938 American musical film directed by Allan Dwan. The screenplay by Don Ettlinger and Karl Tunberg is loosely based on Kate Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and tells the story of a talented orphan's trials and tribulations after winning a radio audition to represent a breakfast cereal. The show features Temple singing a medley of her hit tunes and a finale in which Temple as a toy soldier dances with B...
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1938 American musical film directed by Allan Dwan. The screenplay by Don Ettlinger and Karl Tunberg is loosely based on Kate Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and tells the story of a talented orphan's trials and tribulations after winning a radio audition to represent a breakfast cereal. The show features Temple singing a medley of her hit tunes and a finale in which Temple as a toy soldier dances with Bill Robinson on a flight of stairs. Thw film was well received by Variety, and, in 2009, was available on videocassette and DVD.
Rebecca Winstead wins a radio audition to represent a breakfast cereal but leaves the studio with her shifty stepfather Harry Kipper believing she has lost the audition. Advertising head Tony Kent is dismayed when he discovers she has vanished without a trace.
Kipper regards Rebecca as a burden and dumps her on the farm of her Aunt Miranda. Kent lives next door, recognizes Rebecca, and requests Miranda's permission...
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