This was one of my FAVORITE movies as a young kid and literally no one else has heard of it........I'm pretty sure that I learned about the Great Depression from this, and I know for a fact that that's the case about Amelia Earhart.
When I found a super low quality version uploaded on youtube, I thought that it would be a nice nostalgia trip but it ended up playing like the reenactment footage in a true crime documentary. Every actor in this (except for the guy who played Bojangles) is haunting me now.
As for Shirley, to have a ten year old playing six passing for five??? and then the character doesn't remember that she was five for two years??? absolutely bonkers