There's a new girl at Miss Minchin's! In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we're talking about the children's classic A Little Princess!
In this episode we discuss:
- Frances Hodgson Burnett's original 1905 novel
- A Little Princess (1917), directed by Marshall Neilan, written by Frances Marion, and starring Mary Pickford, Katherine Griffith, and ZaSu Pitts
- The Little Princess (1939), directed by Walter Lang, written by Ethel Hill and Walter Ferris, and starring Shirley Temple, Ian Hunter, Arthur Treacher, and Cesar Romero
- Princess Sarah (1985), directed by Fumio Kurokawa, and written by Hidemi Kamata, Keiko Mukuroji, and Ryūzō Nakanishi
- A Little Princess (1986), directed by Carol Wiseman, written by Jeremy Burnham, and starring Amelia Shankley, Maureen Lipman, Miriam Margolyes, and Nigel Havers
- A Little Princess (1995), directed by Alfonso Cuarón, written by Richard LaGravenese, and starring Liesel Matthews, Eleanor Bron, and Liam Cunningham
Footnotes:
- Episode 50: Charlotte's Web
- Episode 5: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Episode 41: The Ten Commandments
- The theme song to The Adventures of Robin Hood
- Akage no An (Anne of Green Gables) (1979)
- The Pritzker family
- The music videos for Blind Melon's "No Rain" and "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Bedrock Anthem"
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