Curly Top is a 1935 American musical romantic comedy film starring Shirley Temple, John Boles and Rochelle Hudson.

Elizabeth and her older sister Mary are in a heavily regimented orphanage where her attempts at play are discouraged by the overly stern superintendent Mrs. Higgins.

Discovering that Elizabeth's older sister had promised their dead parents that they would never be separated, Morgan takes them both into his home, but invents an imaginary guardian for whom he is only the middleman.

Elizabeth, meanwhile, wins over Morgan's eccentric Aunt Genevieve and the stuffy butler, who eventually warms to taking care of her pet pony and duck.

Helen Brown Norden wrote in Vanity Fair that Temple "has great charm and a phenomenal ease which permit her to dominate even such an absurd situation and stupid dialogue as are forced on her in her latest picture, Curly Top.