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Little Miss Roughneck

Little Miss Roughneck

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 23, 1938

Runtime

1h 4m

Genres

Romance, Comedy, Music

Original Title

Little Miss Roughneck

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Director

Aubrey Scotto

Description

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).