The Beloved Brat is a 1938 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Bonita Granville, Dolores Costello, and Donald Crisp.

[1] The screenplay was written by Lawrence Kimble from an original story by Jean Negulesco.

Roberta Morgan has wealthy parents who give her plenty of material possessions but who basically ignore her.

Roberta tells the police that Jenkins was drinking and the butler is sentenced to prison for manslaughter.

[5] Diabolique magazine in 2019 described it as "an entertaining star vehicle for Bonita Granville, playing a poor little rich girl who sets her room on fire, accidentally kills a motorist by grabbing the wheel of a speeding car, sends the racist family butler to prison for the crime by perjuring herself on the stand, is sent to reform school and… actually reforms... of cultural interest in that it shows a black mother character to be a far superior parent to Granville's parents, and Granville's best friend is a black boy."