In most of her films, Shirley Temple was always either looking for her father, saving her father, or just plain adoring her dad. In many of her films, the father is a cast as a competent, strong, loving, protective, provider who somehow suffers a reversal of fortune so severe that his little girl is forced to help save the day. Instead of being helpless, it’s Shirley and Daddy against the world – their love and her dogged devotion conquering all. One example of this care is found in "The Little Princess," when the pint-size heroine brings her father's memory back as he recovers in a veteran's hospital, unable to recognize his own daughter.