Just Around the Corner – 1938 – English – Comedy – Drama – Family
Just Around the Corner – 1938 – English
Film directed in 1938 by Irving Cummings, and starring Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell, Amanda Duff, Bill Robinson, Bert Lahr, Franklin Pangborn, Cora Witherspoon, Claude Gillingwater, Benny Bartlett, Brooks Benedict, Hal K. Dawson, Eddie Conrad, Mary Forbes, Jack Gargan, Harold Goodwin, J. Anthony Hugues, Marilyn Knowlden, Ethan Laidlaw, Paul McVey, Edgar Norton, Billy Wayne, Charles Williams…
Synopsis: Penny Hale is the daughter of Jeff Hale, a once wealthy architect and widower now ruined by the depression and working as the maintenance man in an apartment building, in which his girlfriend Lola lives in the penthouse. Shirley, 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 and backs her father’s engineering plans.