Little Miss Roughneck (1938)
She's a panic in pigtails!
64 min
Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
- Release date
- January 23, 1938
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Edith Fellows as Foxine LaRue
- Leo Carrillo as Pascual Orozco
- Scott Kolk as Al Patridge
- Julie Bishop as Mary LaRue
- Margaret Irving as Mrs. Gertrude 'Gert' LaRue
- Inez Palange as Mercedes Orozco
- George McKay as Phil Edwards
- Thurston Hall as Joe Crowley
- Frank C. Wilson as DeWilde
- John Gallaudet as Larkin
Crew
- Aubrey Scotto · Director
- Fred Niblo Jr. · Writer
- Grace Neville · Writer
- Michael L. Simmons · Writer
- Wallace MacDonald · Producer
- Benjamin H. Kline · Cinematographer
- James Sweeney · Editor