Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.

Shirley Temple
as Barbara Barry

Alice Faye
as Jerry Dolan

Gloria Stuart
as Margaret Allen

Jack Haley
as Jimmy Dolan

Michael Whalen
as Richard Barry

Sara Haden
as Collins

Jane Darwell
as Woodward

Claude Gillingwater
as Simon Peck

Paul Stanton
as George Hathaway

Henry Armetta
as Tony
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Shirley Temple couldn't have been more than eight years old when she starred - and that is the word - in this gently amusing comedy about a young girl "Barbara" who lives the life a molly-coddled girl with her doting, wealthy father "Richard" (Michael Whalen). When he decides to send her to school, ...