Bad Little Angel

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Bad Little Angel
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Directed by Wilhelm Thiele
Written by Dorothy Yost
Based on"Looking After Sandy"
by Margaret Turnbull
Produced byAlbert E. Levoy
Starring Virginia Weidler
Gene Reynolds
Cinematography John F. Seitz
Edited by Frank Sullivan
Music by Edward Ward
Production
company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • October 27, 1939 (1939-10-27)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Virginia Weidler and Terry, who also played "Toto" in The Wizard of Oz that year (1939) Virginia Weidler and Toto.jpg
Virginia Weidler and Terry, who also played "Toto" in The Wizard of Oz that year (1939)

Bad Little Angel is a 1939 inspirational drama film starring Virginia Weidler as an orphan named Patsy Sanderson, living in America around 1900. The film was based on the story "Looking After Sandy" by Margaret Turnbull.

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Plot

Treated with contempt in her small New England town, the lonely Patsy takes the advice of a dying woman and decides to live according to verses in the Bible. After reading a verse about Egypt, she flees her orphanage and spends almost all the money she has on a train ticket to a town called Egypt, New Jersey. There she finds friends and a new family, helps the downtrodden, and awakens the consciences of wrongdoers.

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