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Baby Take a Bow

Based on the success of Little Miss Marker and Stand Up and Cheer!, Temple's Fox salary was raised to $1250 per week, and her mother's salary as coach and hairdresser was raised to $150 per week.

Blue-plate special

" The first book publication of Damon Runyon's story, "Little Miss Marker," was in a 1934 collection entitled Damon Runyon's Blue Plate Special. A Hollywood columnist wrote in 1940, "Every time Spencer Tracy enters the Metro commissary, executives and minor geniuses look up from their blue plate specials to look at the actor and marvel.

Little Miss Marker

Another remake was 1962's 40 Pounds of Trouble, starring Tony Curtis as a casino manager who is left with an eight-year-old girl.

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