Little Miss Roughneck

Little Miss Roughneck

She's a panic in pigtails!

1938 · 64 min · ★ 10.0 · Romance, Comedy, Music

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).

Directed by Aubrey Scotto · Written by Fred Niblo Jr.

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Edith Fellows Foxine LaRue
Leo Carrillo Pascual Orozco
Scott Kolk Al Patridge (as Scott Colton)
Julie Bishop Mary LaRue (as Jacqueline Wells)
Margaret Irving Mrs. Gertrude 'Gert' LaRue
Inez Palange Mercedes Orozco
George McKay Phil Edwards
Frank C. Wilson DeWilde
John Gallaudet Larkin
Walter O. Stahl Von Hemmer (as Walter Stahl)
Ivan Miller Yerkes
Al Bridge Sheriff

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