After watching this film, I was in love with Rochelle Hudson. She is not remembered much for this film and I think her performance is great. Poppy is a girl with a father (Fields) who has been traveling around with a carnival poor and starving but excited by all the movement.
Fields get to do a lot of great verbal routines in this film. They travel into a town where a widow sees Poppy and thinks there is something about her that she might be an heiress to a fortune from her dead families estate. It's not a straight path however. Field's fakes a birth certificate which is exposed and everybody thinks Poppy is not related to the family.
Fields has some great physical comedy in this but to me Husdon steals the show. Her emotions and depth in playing Poppy really hits a home run. The only reason I think this one is over looked is because of other films in 1936 as this is a remake of the silent. She deserves kudos here, with a charm that lights up the screen.
Late in the film after many escapes from angry folks because of the fraud, the real proof is found that Poppy is indeed the rightful heir of her families fortune. Poppy also is told by her father that he found her at a Circus when she was 3 years old, and had raised her from there. When everything is set straight at the end, he tells Poppy his famous fatherly advice and line he would use later in the title of one of his last films. "Poppy, just remember, never give a sucker an even break."
Hudson never got a break for her acting in this one.
Fields get to do a lot of great verbal routines in this film. They travel into a town where a widow sees Poppy and thinks there is something about her that she might be an heiress to a fortune from her dead families estate. It's not a straight path however. Field's fakes a birth certificate which is exposed and everybody thinks Poppy is not related to the family.
Fields has some great physical comedy in this but to me Husdon steals the show. Her emotions and depth in playing Poppy really hits a home run. The only reason I think this one is over looked is because of other films in 1936 as this is a remake of the silent. She deserves kudos here, with a charm that lights up the screen.
Late in the film after many escapes from angry folks because of the fraud, the real proof is found that Poppy is indeed the rightful heir of her families fortune. Poppy also is told by her father that he found her at a Circus when she was 3 years old, and had raised her from there. When everything is set straight at the end, he tells Poppy his famous fatherly advice and line he would use later in the title of one of his last films. "Poppy, just remember, never give a sucker an even break."
Hudson never got a break for her acting in this one.