Little Miss Big(1946)
That Dynamite Mite of "Frontier Gal"
A wealthy eccentric women escapes from a mental institution and finds refuge with a financially strapped barber and his two daughters
Movie: Little Miss Big
Top 10 Billed Cast
Nancy Bryan
Mary Jane Baxter
Eddie Martin
Ellan
Charlie Bryan
Kathy Bryan
Father Lennergan
Wilfred Elliott
Sanford Baxter
Duncan
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