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* GenderFlip: Miss Amelia, the sister of Miss Minchin, become her brother Hubert. Justified as Hubert decided to enroll in the army and serve as contact for Sara in the military hospital, given this adaptation has added a war context.

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* GenderFlip: Miss Amelia, the sister of Miss Minchin, become her brother Hubert. Justified as Hubert decided to enroll in the army and serve as a contact for Sara in the military hospital, given this adaptation has added a war context.
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* GenderFlip: Miss Amelia, the sister of Miss Minchin, become her brother Hubert. Justified as Hubert decided to enroll in the army and serve as contact for Sara in the military hospital, given this adaptation has added a war context.
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''The Little Princess'' is a 1939 film directed by Walter Lang and starring Creator/ShirleyTemple. It is adapted from the novel ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' by Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett.

Due to Fox failing to renew the copyright, this film is in the PublicDomain.

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''The Little Princess'' is a 1939 drama film directed by Walter Lang and starring Creator/ShirleyTemple. It is Creator/ShirleyTemple, loosely adapted from the novel ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' by Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett.

Due Temple's first Technicolor film, and her last box-office hit as a child star, it is now in the PublicDomain due to Fox failing to renew the copyright, this film is in the PublicDomain.
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''The Little Princess'' is a 1939 film directed by Walter Lang and starring Creator/ShirleyTemple. It is adapted from the novel ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'' by Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett.

Due to Fox failing to renew the copyright, this film is in the PublicDomain.
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!!This film provides examples of:

* AdaptedOut: Along with many minor characters, Ermengarde and Lottie are missing, despite their importance to Sara in the original.
* AsideGlance: Shirley Temple looks right at the camera as the film ends.
* DeusExMachina: Or rather, extremely powerful convenient visitor. When Sara finds the hospital that may contain her wounded, amnesiac father, she is allowed to search it after asking a very old, important-looking woman for permission. Upon thanking her for this, Sara asks the woman's name, and then blushes and curtsies when she responds: [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria "Victoria."]] It's a heartwarming moment, and kind of stops anyone this side of God from keeping father and daughter apart one second longer.
* DisneyDeath: Sara's father is reported dead, then turns out to still be alive.
* DreamSequence: Sara has an elaborate dream in which she actually is a princess, and Miss Minchin is an evil witch.
* HaveAGayOldTime: Captain Crewe requests that Sara's room at the seminary be made "as gay as possible." We're talking about an all-girls school.
* KarmaHoudini: Miss Minchin. All we see happen to her is a look of utter shock upon learning Sara's father is still alive.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: At one point Sara turns a corner and goes in one direction while her father is wheeled out of his room and sent down the hallway in the opposite direction.
* PrettyInMink: Sara wears a blue coat with an ermine collar and ermine muff.
* ShellShockedVeteran: One of the soldiers in the hospital is making paper dolls.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Sara's father is alive. He's horribly injured, but alive.
* SpoiledSweet: Sara has clearly been ridiculously spoiled but is still as sweet as Shirley Temple always was.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Sara is first seen in a blue coat (with an ermine collar) and hat.
* TitleDrop: "She's just like a little princess, isn't she?"
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Becky is last seen being captured by the police while Sara escapes.
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