Baby Burlesks

{{Infobox film

|director = Charles Lamont
Ray Nazarro

|producer = Jack Hays

|image = Glad Rags to Riches Temple.jpg

|caption = Shirley Temple in Glad Rags to Riches (1933)

|released =

|editing = William Austin
Howard Dillinger
Arthur Ellis

|runtime = 10-11 minutes

|cinematography = Sidney Wagner
Dwight Warren

|music = Alfonso Corelli

|writer = Jack Hays
Charles Lamont

|distributor = Universal Pictures
Educational Film Exchanges, Inc.
Fox Film

|starring = Shirley Temple
Georgie Billings
Danny Boone, Jr
Eugene Butler
Marilyn Granas
Philip Hurlic
Gloria Anne Mack
Arthur J. Maskery
Jimmie Milliken
Dorian Samson
Georgie Smith

|country = United States

|language = English

}}

Baby Burlesks was a series of Pre-Code short films produced by Educational Pictures in the early 1930s.Black, p. 15; Windeler p. 111 The series featured three-year-old Shirley Temple in her first screen appearances. In her autobiography, Temple describes the Baby Burlesks series as "a cynical exploitation of our childish innocence," and that the short films were sometimes racist or sexist.Black, p. 14

Filmography

File:Shirleytemple young.jpg

All eight films in the Baby Burlesks series were produced by Jack Hays and directed by Charles Lamont, except the first, Runt Page, which was directed by Ray Nazarro.Black, p. 15 As a star, Temple, received $10 a day.Black, p. 15; Windeler, p. 111 In 2009, all eight films were available on videocassette and DVD.

Runt Page
War Babies
Pie Covered Wagon
Glad Rags to Riches
Kid in Hollywood
The Kid's Last Fight
Polly Tix in Washington
Kid 'in' Africa

References

Works cited

{{citation |author=Black, Shirley Temple |year=1988 |title=Child Star: an Autobiography |location=New York |publisher=Warner Books, Inc. |isbn=0-446-35792-8 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/childstarautobio00temp }}
{{citation |author=Edwards, Anne |year=1988 |title=Shirley Temple: American Princess |location=New York |publisher=William Morrow and Company, Inc.}}
{{citation |author=Windeler, Robert |year=1992 |orig-year=1978 |title=The Films of Shirley Temple |location=New York |publisher=Carol Publishing Group |isbn=0-8065-0725-X |pages=17, 111–129}}