An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
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Shirley Temple
Betsy Brown
George Murphy
Roger Wendling
Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Clayton
Phyllis Brooks
Barbara Shea
Edna May Oliver
Sarah Wendling
George Barbier
Fiske
Edward Ellis
Pop Shea
Jane Darwell
Miss Hutchins
El Brendel
Ole
Donald Meek
Willoughby Wendling
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