

“America's Little Sweetheart . . . The Dimpled Darling You Love in the Greatest of Civil War Dramas !”
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
Directed by David Butler
User score
34 votes

Released
December 27, 1935
1h 10m
English

Shirley Temple
Virgie Cary

John Boles
Captain Cary

Jack Holt
Colonel Morrison

Karen Morley
Mrs. Cary

Bill Robinson
Uncle Billy

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Sergeant Dudley

Willie Best
James Henry

Frank McGlynn Sr.
Abraham Lincoln
Bessie Lyle
Mammy
Hannah Washington
Sally Ann

Bud Geary
Yankee Sergeant (uncredited)

Matthew Beard
Black Boy (uncredited)