Poor Little Rich Girl

"Mary Pickford's third for Artcraft, and director Maurice Tourneur's second, this is naturally far closer to the Eleanor Gates story than was the Shirley Temple remake, which updated it to the world of commercial radio in the thirties. Although Pickford is delightful (and minus any major players appearing with her, it's virtually a one-woman show), it's the subtlety of Tourneur's direction, the camerawork (John Van Den Broek and Lucien Andriot) and especially the art direction (Ben Carré) that really snare the attention. The expressionistic quality of the drug-induced dream-delirium that forms the film's climax in some ways predates the look of Lang's German classic, Destiny." William K. Everson

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