Just Around the Corner (1938) |

1h 45min. // Penny Hale is the daughter of Jeff Hale, a once wealthy architect and widower now ruined by the depression and working as a janitor in an apartment building. Penny, always positive and happy, refuses to accept their drop in the world and believes prosperity is just around the corner. She makes friends with an eccentric, grumpy old man, Samuel G. Henshaw, who turns out to be a millionaire.

Directed by: Irving Cummings

Writing Credits: Ethel Hill (screenplay), J.P. McEvoy (screenplay), Darrell Ware (screenplay), Paul Gerard Smith (story)

Starring: Shirley Temple (as Penny Hale), Joan Davis (as Kitty), Charles Farrell (as Jeff Hale), Amanda Duff (as Lola), Bill Robinson (as Corporal Jones) and Bert Lahr (as Gus)