History Film / Dimples

* AdaptationDecay: The ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'' play, from what little is shown of it. Apparently it makes Little Eva the protagonist, turning the title into a SecondaryCharacterTitle, and ending with Eva's death and with the [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] assumption that her father will give Uncle Tom his freedom, as per her LastRequest. Never mind that her death happens in the ''middle'' of the novel, and that soon afterward her father also dies before he can free Tom, who instead is sold to [[{{Sadist}} Simon Legree...]]

* AdaptationDecay: The ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' play, from what little is shown of it. Apparently it makes Little Eva the protagonist, turning the title into a SecondaryCharacterTitle, ending with Eva's death and with the [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] assumption that her father will give Uncle Tom his freedom, as per her LastRequest. Never mind that her death happens in the ''middle'' of the novel, and that soon afterward her father also dies before he can free Tom, who instead is sold to [[{{Sadist}} Simon Legree...]]

* AdaptationDecay: The ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' play from what little is shown of it. Apparently it makes Little Eva the protagonist, turning the title into a SecondaryCharacterTitle, ending with Eva's death and with the [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] assumption that her father will give Uncle Tom his freedom, as per her LastRequest. Never mind that her death happens in the ''middle'' of the novel, and that soon afterward her father also dies before he can free Tom, who instead is sold to [[{{Sadist}} Simon Legree...]]

* AdaptationDecay: The ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' play from what little is shown of it. Apparently it makes Little Eva the protagonist, turning the title into a SecondaryCharacterTitle, ending with Eva's death and with the [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet]] assumption that her father will give Uncle Tom his freedom, as per her LastRequest. Never mind that her death happens in the ''middle'' of the novel, and that soon afterward her father also dies before he can free Tom, who instead is sold to [[CompleteMonster Simon Legree...]]

* TheShill: The Professor himself falls for a con with two men acting as shills, causing him to lose the eight hundred dollars needed for the play

The place is New York City. The time is the years leading up to UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. Sylvia "Dimples" Appleby (Temple) lives with her eccentric grandfather, "The Professor" (Morgan). Supposedly a music teacher, the Professor's actual discipline appears to be thievery. Mrs. Caroline Drew (Helen Westley), a GrandeDame, takes a liking to Dimples and wants to adopt her, but Dimples and the Professor refuse to be separated. Meanwhile, Mrs. Drew has disowned her nephew Allen (Robert Kent) for becoming a Broadway producer, this being back when the theatre wasn't considered reputable. Allen plans to adapt the country's latest bestseller, ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'', as a play, and wouldn't you know it, he needs someone to play Little Eva.

A 1936 {{musical}} directed by William A. Seiter, starring Creator/ShirleyTemple and Frank Morgan.

The place is New York City. The time is the years leading up to UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. Creator/ShirleyTemple is a StreetUrchin called "Dimples" and Frank Morgan is her eccentric grandfather "The Professor". Supposedly a music teacher, the Professor's actual discipline appears to be thievery. Mrs. Caroline Drew, a GrandeDame, takes a liking to Dimples and wants to adopt her, but Dimples and the Professor refuse to be separated. Meanwhile, Mrs. Drew has disowned her nephew Allen for becoming a Broadway producer, this being back when the theatre wasn't considered reputable. Allen plans to adapt the country's latest bestseller, ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'', as a play. Wouldn't you know it, he needs someone to play Litta Eva.

The place is New York City. The time is the years leading up to UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. Creator/ShirleyTemple is a StreetUrchin called "Dimples" and Frank Morgan is her eccentric grandfather "The Professor". It's never explained exactly what he's a professor of, but it appears to be thievery. Mrs. Caroline Drew, a GrandeDame, takes a liking to Dimples and wants to adopt her, but Dimples and the Professor refuse to be separated. Meanwhile, Mrs. Drew has disowned her nephew Allen for becoming a Broadway producer, this being back when the theatre wasn't considered reputable. Allen plans to adapt the country's latest bestseller, ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'', as a play. Wouldn't you know it, he needs someone to play Litta Eva.

* TheFagin: The Professor has a gang of street urchins, which includes Dimples

* StreetMusician: Dimples and a gang of other street children perform music in the streets, providing a distraction for the Professor to pick pockets. Being innocent, Dimples knows nothing about it and when confronted, insists "the Professor is one of the honestest men in the world - and besides, he's reformed!"

* UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica: The movie is set in this era, albeit in New York City rather than the South. An opening title card defines the setting as the time when theatre was becoming more acceptable and slavery was becoming more controversial. That is, it's the DawnOfAnEra for Broadway theatre (and, by extension, the American entertainment industry) while also being near the EndOfAnAge with regards to U.S. slavery. Both these trends come together with the ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' play.

* MinstrelShows: The final scene of the movie is an in-universe minstrel show. The movie claims, as part of its DawnOfAnEra theme, that this is the first minstrel show to come to New York. Actually, the Virginia Minstrels performed on the the New York stage in 1843, about a decade before the film's early 1850s setting. Incidentally, a clip of this scene is featured in the Creator/SpikeLee film ''Film/Bamboozled''.

* UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica: The movie is set in this era, albeit in New York City rather than the South. An opening title card defines the setting as the time when theater was becoming more acceptable and slavery was becoming more controversial. That is, it's the DawnOfAnEra for Broadway theatre (and, by extension, the American entertainment industry) while also being near the EndOfAnAge with regards to U.S. slavery. Both these trends come together with the ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' play.

* UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica: The movie is set in this era, albeit in New York City rather than the South. An opening title card defines the setting as the time when theater was becoming more acceptable and slavery was becoming more controversial. That is, it's the DawnOfAnEra for Broadway theater (and, by extension, the American entertainment industry) while also being near the EndOfAnAge with regards to U.S. slavery. Both these trends come together with the ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' play.

* DawnOfAnEra: For Broadway theater and, by extension, the American entertainment industry (pity the beginnings were so racist). It's also nearing the EndOfAnAge with regards to UsefulNotes/AntebellumAmerica.

The place is New York City. The time is the years leading up to UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar. Creator/ShirleyTemple is a StreetUrchin called "Dimples" and Frank Morgan is her eccentric grandfather "The Professor". It's never explained exactly what he's a professor of, but it appears to be thievery. Mrs. Caroline Drew, a GrandeDame, takes a liking to Dimples and wants to adopt her, but Dimples and the Professor refuse to be separated - for now, at least. Meanwhile, Mrs. Drew has disowned her nephew Allen for becoming a Broadway producer, this being back when the theatre wasn't considered reputable. Allen plans to adapt the country's latest bestseller, ''Literature/UncleTomsCabin'', as a play. Wouldn't you know it, he needs someone to play Litta Eva.

* StickyFingers: The Professor

* TheShill: The Professor himself falls for a con with two men acting as shills, causing him to lose the eight hundered dollars needed for the play