Captain January (1936 film)

Captain January
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid Butler
Screenplay bySam Hellman
Gladys Lehman
Harry Tugend
Based onCaptain January
1890 novel
by Laura E. Richards
Produced byDarryl F. Zanuck
StarringShirley Temple
Guy Kibbee
Slim Summerville
Buddy Ebsen
Sara Haden
June Lang
Jane Darwell
CinematographyJohn F. Seitz
Edited byIrene Morra
Music byLew Pollack
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • April 24, 1936 (1936-04-24)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.3 million[1]
L-R: Shirley Temple, Slim Summerville, Guy Kibbee, and Sara Haden

Captain January is a 1936 American musical comedy-drama film directed by David Butler. The screenplay by Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman, and Harry Tugend is based on the 1890 children's book of the same name by Laura E. Richards. The film stars Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, and Sara Haden.

There was a tentative renewal,[2] but the film is in the public domain due to "a legal loophole".[3]

  1. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century-Fox: A Corporate and Financial History Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 p 217
  2. ^ tentative renewal in 1964
  3. ^ Hal Erickson, "Captain January Overview", Movies & TV Dept., The New York Times, archived from the original on 2013-08-21