Shirley Temple - Now and Forever (1934) and Little Miss Marker (

Shirley Temple - Now and Forever (1934) and Little Miss Marker (1934) DVD9 [DDR]

Now and Forever is a 1934 drama film directed by Henry Hathaway. The screenplay by Vincent Lawrence and Sylvia Thalberg was based on a story by Jack Kirkland and Melville Baker. The film stars Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, and Shirley Temple in a story about a criminal going straight for his child's sake. Temple sang "The World Owes Me a Living". The film was critically well received. Temple adored Cooper who nicknamed her 'Wigglebritches' (Windeler 140). This is the only film in which Lombard and Temple appeared together.

CAST:-
Gary Cooper as Jerry Day
Carole Lombard as Toni Carstairs
Shirley Temple as Penelope Day
Sir Guy Standing as Felix Evans
Charlotte Granville as Mrs. Crane
Gilbert Emery as James Higginson
Henry Kolker as Mr. Clark
Tetsu Komai as Mr. Ling

Directed by Henry Hathaway
Produced by Louis D. Lighton
Written by Vincent Lawrence, Sylvia Thalberg
Music by Harry Revel, Mack Gordon

The film was popular at the box office
The New York Times thought the film "a sentimental melodrama" and "a pleasant enough entertainment." Temple was highly praised for her performance.

Temple sang "The World Owes Me a Living", a version of which also featured in a Silly Symphonies animation of The Ant and the Grasshopper in the same year. Louella Parsons was amazed "at the ease with which [Temple] reels off her lines, saying big words and expressions. There is nothing parrot-like about Shirley. She knows what she is talking about."

Temple-fever spread with the release of the film. Her fan mail (which numbered 400ΓÇô500 letters a day) was delivered in huge mail sacks to the studio and a secretary was hired to manage it

SYNOPSIS:- Now and Forever (1934)
Young freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has been living with his rich deceased wife's family. Pennie appears to be just what Jerry needs to mend his swindling ways and lead a straight life. Despite the responsibility of his new family, Jerry is swayed by the corruptible influence of jewelry thief Felix Evans. When Evans lures Jerry into a job, it puts the continuation of his new family life at risk.

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Shirley Temple - Little Miss Marker (1934) Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford

Little Miss Marker (1934) (also known as The Girl in Pawn) is a drama film directed by Alexander Hall. The screenplay was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Lehman after a short story of the same name by Damon Runyon. The film stars Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, and Dorothy Dell in a story about a little girl held as collateral by gangsters. The film was named to the United States National Film Registry and has been remade several times.

CAST:-
Adolphe Menjou as Sorrowful Jones
Dorothy Dell as Bangles Carson
Charles Bickford as Big Steve Halloway
Shirley Temple as Marthy "Marky" Jane
Lynne Overman as Regret.
Warren Hymer as Sore Toe
Sam Hardy as Benny the Gouge
John Kelly as Canvas Back
Frank McGlynn Sr. as Doc Chesley
John Sheehan as Sun Rise
Frank Conroy as Dr. Ingalls

Directed by Alexander Hall
Produced by B.P. Schulberg
Written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman
Story: Damon Runyon

The film was remade in 1949 as Sorrowful Jones with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball and again as Little Miss Marker in 1980 with Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, Brian Dennehy, and Lee Grant. Another remake was 1962's 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis as a casino manager who is left with an eight-year-old girl.

In 1998, Little Miss Marker was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

MOVIE REVIEW:- Little Miss Marker (1934)
The film tells the story of "Marky" (Temple), whose father gives her to a gangster-run gambling operation as a "marker" (collateral) for a bet. When the man loses his bet and commits suicide, the gangsters are left with the girl on their hands. They decide to keep her temporarily and use her to help pull off one of their fixed races, naming her the owner of the horse to be used in the race.

Marky is sent to live with bookie Sorrowful Jones (Menjou). Initially upset about being forced to look after the girl, the gangster eventually begins to develop a father-daughter relationship with her. His fellow gangsters become fond of her and begin to fill the roles of her extended family. Bangles (Dell) - girlfriend of gang kingpin Big Steve (Bickford), who has gone to Chicago to place bets on the horse - also begins to care for Marky, and to fall in love with Sorrowful, whose own concern for Marky shows he has a warm heart beneath his hard-man persona. Sorrowful, encouraged by Bangles and Marky, gets a bigger apartment, buys Marky new clothes and himself a better cut of suit, reads her bedtime stories, and shows her how to pray.

However, being around the gang has a somewhat bad influence on the child, and she begins to develop a cynical nature and a wide vocabulary of gambling terminology and slang.

Bangles and Sorrowful, worried that Marky's acquired bad-girl attitude means she won't get adopted by a "good family", put on a party with gangsters dressed up as knights-of-the-round-table, to rekindle her former sweetness. Marky is unimpressed until they bring in the horse and parade her around on its back. Big Steve, returning to New York, frightens the horse which throws Marky, who is taken to hospital. Big Steve goes to the hospital to pay back Sorrowful for trying to steal his girlfriend, but is roped into giving Marky the direct blood transfusion she needs for her life-saving operation. Sorrowful, praying for Marky's survival, destroys the drug which, administered to the horse, would have helped it win the race but killed it soon after. Big Steve, told he has "good blood", and pleased to have given life for a change, forgives Bangles and Sorrowful. They plan to marry and adopt Marky.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 4999 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 23.976
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
RunTime 161 mins
Subtitles: Francais, Espanol
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 161 mins