A Little Princess News

The most recent photo I could find was of her in 2005, a full 10 years after making A Little Princess.

A classic British children's miniseries: dated, but not without charm. When I was about six or seven years old, there was a program on public television called Wonderworks .

Adam 12: Season Three: We've been showing our kid episodes of "Emergency!" for the past couple of months, and they hold up well.

Adam 12: Season Three: We've been showing our kid episodes of "Emergency!" for the past couple of months, and they hold up well.

Years before Alfonso Cuaron directed "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," he'd already explored magic and boarding schools in the entertaining take on Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic story "A Little Princess." Of course, the magic is all imagined as an orphan girl helps her classmates to escape their miserable surroundings through tales of ...

Reviewing a film based on a book you haven't read is always a dicey proposition - you likely missed or misread the winks and nods aimed at the readers surrounding you - but I think an exception can be made in the case of a film that works because you haven't read the source material.

When David Yates was hired to direct Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , fans took one look at his TV-heavy resume and panicked that he wouldn't be able to bring the same scale to the franchise that previous directors Mike Newell , Alfonso Cuaron and Chris Columbus had managed with aplomb.

This 1986 version of the many productions of A Little Princess is a faithful adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel.

The debauched days of the Rat Pack, the Brat Pack and other young Hollywood hedonists with their excess-all-areas lifestyles are gone, says Gill Pringle.