In this color film, based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s book A Little Princess and set in turn-of-the-century England, Temple’s father is shipped off to war, and she is shipped off to boarding school. She lives like a princess there until she hears reports that her father has died. She embarks on a search for him, runs into Queen Victoria, and asks her to help track him down.
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The Little Princess
1939