The Poor Little Rich Girl (Esprios Classics)

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Eleanor Gates (26 September 1874 - 7 March 1951) was an American playwright who created seven plays that were staged on Broadway. Her best-known work was the play The Poor Little Rich Girl, which was produced by her husband in 1913 and went on to be made as films for Mary Pickford in 1917 and for Shirley Temple in 1936. The film story, created to cash in on the talents of the eight-year-old Temple and the rights to the changing places story, was obtained for $40,000 to Gates and an additional $20,000 to Mary Pickford’s company which had made the 1917 film. The new film had made two million dollars by the end of 1939.