Little Orvie is told he cannot have a dog, but finds a stray and keeps it for a day.Little Orvie is told he cannot have a dog, but finds a stray and keeps it for a day.Little Orvie is told he cannot have a dog, but finds a stray and keeps it for a day.
Johnny Sheffield
- Orvie Stone
- (as John Sheffield)
Ann E. Todd
- Patsy Balliser
- (as Ann Todd)
Paul E. Burns
- Grocer
- (as Paul Burns)
Dell Henderson
- Mr. Brown
- (as Del Henderson)
Sonny Bupp
- Freddie Jackson
- (uncredited)
Von the Dog
- Dog
- (uncredited)
Payne B. Johnson
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
- Man at Dog Pound
- (uncredited)
Fred Walburn
- Pug
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaAccording to a contemporary article in The Hollywood Reporter, this film was slated for production in 1938 with Peter Holden in the title role. RKO intended to make a series of "Little Orvie" films depending on the reception of this picture, but none were subsequently made.
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Family film...innocuous and yet with something to offend everybody
Suburban youngster schemes to keep a stray hound. Silly adaptation of a Booth Tarkington novel was probably a decent-enough matinée item for 1940, but time has not been kind to the picture, what with a mother who acts like a cold-hearted villainess and both black and Italian caricatures so over-the-top they are positively gruesome. John Sheffield (née Johnny), Boy from the "Tarzan" flicks, has more lines here than he ever spoke on film before; he's a cute, if somewhat inexpressive and monotone youngster, but Ernest Truex and Dorothy Tree are totally inappropriate as his parents. Truex looks like Sheffield's grandfather and Tree's father, while Dorothy snaps at and orders everyone around like an R.K.O. version of Joan Crawford. There's some funny slapstick business at the beginning, and the pathos near the finish are carried off well (thanks to Sheffield), however the subplot involving a cook and a tippling gardener is excruciating. *1/2 from ****
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- moonspinner55
- Mar 18, 2012
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- Booth Tarkington's Little Orvie
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- Runtime1 hour 6 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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