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'Newly rich' sometimes called 'Fiorbidden adventure' was filmed when the talkies were just getting going. Two imperious widows seeking to make it big take off with their kids and of course head to Hollywood. A lot of films at the time had Hollywood plot lines. The kids unexpctedly become pawns and competing movie stars. The girl played by Mitzi Green is sweet, but agressive tomboy. The boy played by a 10-year old Jackie Searl duly outfitted in ringlet curls is a bratty, milk-toast sissy. Searl was often type-cast as a bratty boy. His film mother thought the Fauntleroy curls would help land gigs in films. Mitzi was a more establish child star at the time. The two were about the same age and appeared in five films together. Jackie's roles as brats meant that he never got the adulation of several child stars. The rival moms decded to go to London as a publicity stunt. There they American kids begin to get along together as well as make friends with the Eastern European boy King. The three kids decide they have had enough of demanding adults and run away. Of all things they join a gang in the docks. The plot is insipid and improbable. While meant to be a comedy, it is not very funny. But film goers tastes were different in the 30s. And as Disney Snow White wanabe, Rachel Zeglar, who hates 1930s films would put it, 'evidently so'. Incredably the writers included two very impressive people -- Sinclair Lewis and Joseph Mankiewicz.
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