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...movie seeks to illustrate the oh-so-charming platitude that "All girls are really princesses." We follow Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews), the daughter of a rich British officer, Captain Crewe (Liam Cunningham), as she leaves India for boarding school in New York. At first the school's headmistress, Miss Minchin (Eleanor Bron) spares no expense to put Sara at ease, knowing she'll reap the rewards from Sara's rich father. But when Captain Crewe is reported missing in action and his property is confiscated by the British government, Miss Minchin morphs into Cruella DeVille, complete with a streak...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: A Little (Kids') Charmer | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

Charles H. Sammond, Jr.-Eunice Minchin (Braintree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1948 JUBILEE GUEST LIST (Continued from page three) | 5/22/1945 | See Source »

BEST SHORT STORIES OF THE WAR-Ed. by H. C. Minchin, Andre Maurois, Arnold Zweig, Coningsby Dawson; Introduction by H. M. Tomlinson-Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men Like Dogs* | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, first of the adventurers, left England last Aug. 31 with Capt. Leslie Hamilton and Lieut. Col. Frederick F. Minchin. They were last sighted over Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Two Women | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Upavon, 75 miles away, Captain Hamilton and his flight companion Lieut. Col. Frederick F. Minchin, denied reports that they would take a passenger. Skeptics noted a wicker chair fastened by one leg to the floor of the ship's tiny cabin. Not many hours later, just after dawn, these skeptics saw piled around the wicker chair two brief cases, two red hat boxes and a little wicker basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: A Lost Princess | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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