Little Match Girl (1937)
1937 · Animation · 8 min · dir. Arthur Davis
- Animation
- Family
Synopsis
A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out,…
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Details
- Director
- Arthur Davis
- Writer
- Cal Howard
- Composer
- Joe DeNat
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
- Released
- 1937-11-05
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total
- Running time
- 8 minutes
Cast & crew
Arthur Davis Director- Dorothy Compton
Beatrice Hagen
Gertrude Lawrence
