Baby Burlesks

Baby Burlesks
Shirley Temple in Glad Rags to Riches (1933)
Directed by	Charles Lamont Ray Nazarro
Written by	Jack Hays Charles Lamont
Produced by	Jack Hays
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
Cinematography	Sidney Wagner Dwight Warren
Edited by	William Austin Howard Dillinger Arthur Ellis
Music by	Alfonso Corelli
Distributed by	Universal Pictures Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. Fox Film
Release dates	April 11, 1931 (1931-04-11) - November 6, 1933 (1933-11-06)
Running time	10-11 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Baby Burlesks was a series of Pre-Code short films produced by Educational Pictures in the early 1930s.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3] As a star, Temple, received $10 a day.^[4] 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

• Shirley Temple filmography

Works cited

• Black, Shirley Temple (1988), Child Star: an Autobiography, New York: Warner Books, Inc., ISBN 0-446-35792-8
• Edwards, Anne (1988), Shirley Temple: American Princess, New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.
• Windeler, Robert (1992) [1978], The Films of Shirley Temple, New York: Carol Publishing Group, pp. 17, 111–129, ISBN 0-8065-0725-X

• The Runt Page at IMDb
• The Pie-Covered Wagon at IMDb
• Glad Rags to Riches at IMDb
• Kid in Hollywood at IMDb
• The Kid's Last Fight at the Internet Movie Database
• Polly Tix in Washington at IMDb
• Kid 'in Africa at IMDb
• War Babies at the Internet Archive
• Partial script from Polly-Tix in Washington at the IMDB