Penny Hale, the optimistic and cheerful daughter of a widowed architect, remains hopeful despite her family's decline into poverty during the Depression. Her father, now working as a maintenance man, is aided by a reclusive millionaire, Samuel G. Henshaw, who becomes a key supporter of his engineering endeavors.
Just Around the Corner
The 1949 film "The Little Miss Millionaire" stars Shirley Temple as a young girl who assists her architect father in achieving his goal of a slum-clearance project, while also dancing with the renowned Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.