Movie #194........................."Kathleen"

Movie #194 "Kathleen" is a Shirley Temple movie I saw on TCM yesterday morning basically because I had never seen it nor heard of it before. And it's a Temple movie where she's at that difficult age: 12. And she wasn't bad, really. The story was a typical Temple storyline --- Mom is dead, Dad is too busy working to stay home , wicked nanny who finally leaves fed up --- a doctor comes to "straighten Shirley out" for a few months before going to a foreign country, and, she happens to be Larraine Day, kind, warm, loving, and someone whom Shirley comes to adore............and her dad learns to love this capable woman, too. Meanwhile, some evil possible stepmother comes into the picture and she seems to have her hooks in Shirley's dad -- he just doesn't realize it, until Shirley shows him the way. In order to get in Shirley's singing and dancing, she has these dream sequences where she does that and more. All of it seems to set up for that last line when her dad and Larraine Day find her after she's run away, and she turns to them and says: "Am I dreaming or is this really true?" AWWWWWWWW. I give it a 3. Shirley is always a good watch with the family.