Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
Directed by Aubrey Scotto
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Cast
Edith Fellows
Foxine LaRue
Leo Carrillo
Pascual Orozco
Scott Kolk
Al Patridge (as Scott Colton)
Julie Bishop
Mary LaRue (as Jacqueline Wells)
Margaret Irving
Mrs. Gertrude 'Gert' LaRue
Inez Palange
Mercedes Orozco
George McKay
Phil Edwards
Frank C. Wilson
DeWilde
John Gallaudet
Larkin
Walter O. Stahl
Von Hemmer (as Walter Stahl)
Ivan Miller
Yerkes
Al Bridge
Sheriff
Wade Boteler
Police Inspector Carr
Guy Usher
Police Captain Dorm
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