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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew is a 1939 American black-and-white children's comedy drama film directed by Charles Barton, produced by Jack Fier and based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Sidney. Starring Edith Fellows, Charles Peck, Tommy Bond, Jimmy Leake and Dorothy Anne Seese, it is the first of four Five Little Peppers films.
An illustration for The Five Little Peppers, 1887. The Five Little Peppers is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five children in their native state and develops with their rescue by a wealthy gentleman who takes an interest in the family.
The copper mine co-owned by Polly and Mr. King has not yielded any copper, and the stress has left King bedridden. Polly learns that King's valet Martin is knowledgeable in geology, and Polly and her siblings bring Martin to the mine to look for a copper vein.
2 Cast. 3 Reception. 4 See also. 5 References. ... Columbia Pictures: Release date. June 30, 1940 ... It is the third Five Little Peppers film. [1]
In addition to their stage work, they appeared in a series of short films and a feature-length movie in 1917. Afterwards, Kolb made a return to vaudeville, only returning to the movies in the late 1930s. [citation needed] In 1935, Kolb left the act to work in films as a character actor, [2] eventually appearing in 75 feature films. [1]
Title Director Cast Genre Notes $1,000 a Touchdown: James P. Hogan: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward: Comedy: Paramount: 20,000 Men a Year: Alfred ...
In Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years, Gene Blottner writes that the Five Little Peppers series ended "because, quite frankly, the screenplays were so saccharin that even the talented Edith Fellows couldn't save them." [1]
Quigley made her film debut in 1940 in Susan and God, and appeared in more than a dozen other movies, including Five Little Peppers in Trouble, The Howards of Virginia, Whispering Footsteps and The Human Comedy.