The Little Match Girl
1937, English. Directed by Arthur Davis & Sid Marcus.
A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out, and we see that back in the real world, so did her match and her life. An angel comes along and takes her soul.
- Runtime
- 0h 8m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 5 November 1937
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Cal Howard, Sid Marcus
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The Little Match Girl runs 8 minutes (0h 8m).
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The Little Match Girl isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 5 November 1937. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Little Match Girl?
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Who directed The Little Match Girl?
The Little Match Girl (1937) was directed by Arthur Davis and Sid Marcus.