Stowaway
starring
Shirley Temple ■ Robert Young ■ Alice Faye
(1936)
She Sings and Speaks Chinese!
| Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple) gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall (Robert Young). She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for America. Susan Parker (Alice Faye), also on the ship, marries Randall to give Ching-Ching a family. Over the years I've seen most of Shirley Temple's most famous movies. Stowaway is by far my favorite, though I'm pretty fond of Wee Willie Winkie , Poor Little Rich Girl, and Susannah Of The Mounties, not to mention her much later The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer. Shirley Temple was 8 when she did Stowaway and already had several movies with well-known co-stars under her belt. Her experience shows in this fun and funny movie. She does pretty well with Alice Faye and a very young looking Robert Young of Father Knows Best fame. In typical Shirley Temple fashion Stowaway is charming, cheerful, full of silly songs, and provides a much needed escape from reality. That reality being the Great Depression when the movie first released in 1936 and the COVID-19 pandemic when I just watched it some 84 years later in 2020. I'm an adult now and don't have any kids as an excuse to watch movies like this one. But, I never let that stop me. And honestly, it shouldn't stop you either. There's nothing half so fun as movie-portrayed life on board an ocean-going passenger ship in the 1930s. There are some funny, and even a little snarky, lines that make you laugh out loud. And the courtroom scene at the end is as adorable now as it was then. So, take a little step away from reality and let America's favorite curly-haired little girl sing and dance your troubles away...  1 hour 27 minutes  | Principal Cast Shirley Temple...Ching-Ching aka Barbara Stewart Robert Young...Tommy Randall Alice Faye...Susan Parker Eugene Pallette...The Colonel Helen Westley...Mrs. Hope Arthur Treacher...Atkins Allan Lane...Richard Hope J. Edward Bromberg...Judge J.D. Booth Astrid Allwyn...Kay Swift Robert Greig...Captain Filming Location(s) 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA (studio) Reno, Nevada, USA (The Reno Arch is featured) Washoe County Courthouse - 117 South Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, USA (Exterior shot) Quotes Tommy Randall: You've been so nice to me, I'd like to buy you something. What would you like? Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching: A soup bone. Tommy Randall: A what? Barbara Stewart aka Ching-Ching: A soup bone. For my dog. He's awful hungry. Mrs. Hope: What did you mean when you said you didn't know how you got aboard this ship? You must know! Ching-Ching: But I don't. The last thing I remember is I fell asleep in Uncle Tommy's car. Susan Parker: Tommy who? Ching-Ching: Randall. Tommy Randall. Susan Parker: Tommy Randall? Why, your Uncle Tommy is on board this ship! Mrs. Hope: I might've known you were his niece. He's a problem child, too. Susan Parker: I'll take you to him. Mrs. Hope: Considering his reputation, you'd better turn her over to the Captain. Jenkins, First Mate: We found the stowaway, sir. Captain of SS Victoria: Well, where is he? Let me at him. Second Mate: It's not a he, sir. Mrs. Hope: It's this child here. Captain of SS Victoria: What, you? Ching-Ching: I guess so. Second Mate: She doesn't even know how she got aboard, sir. Captain of SS Victoria: Well, what am I going to do with you? Ching-Ching: Are you really and truly my parents now? Susan Parker: We're the only parents you've got, darling. Ching-Ching: Sun Lo says a child without parents is like a ship without a rudder. |
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