Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Janelle Vreeland on May 27, 2014

The Little Colonel Meets Poe: Henry B. Walthall at Essanay Henry B. Walthall is widely remembered today for his performance as The Little Colonel in D.W. Griffith’s controversial “The Birth of a Nation,” and for his work under Griffith at the Biograph company. What often gets overlooked and forgot   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on May 23, 2013

The Little Colonel Directed by David Butler 1935/USA Fox Film Corporation Repeat viewing This Shirley Temple film is memorable for a couple of fantastic tap dance sequences with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and a choral number at an African-American baptism. It is 1870′s Kentucky.     read more