The Little Colonel (1935) Shortly after the American Civil War, the daughter of a confederate colonel, Elizabeth Lloyd (Evelyn Venable), elopes with northerner Jack Sherman (John Lodge). When Elizabeth's father Colonel Lloyd (Lionel Barrymore) discovers the marriage, he disowns his daughter in a fit of rage and Elizabeth moves west with her new husband to take part in the California Gold Rush. Years later, Elizabeth and her daughter (Shirley Temple) return to the south where she reconnects with her estranged father.