Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).
Edith Fellows
as Foxine LaRue
Leo Carrillo
as Pascual Orozco
Scott Kolk
as Al Patridge (as Scott Colton)
Julie Bishop
as Mary LaRue (as Jacqueline Wells)
Margaret Irving
as Mrs. Gertrude 'Gert' LaRue
Inez Palange
as Mercedes Orozco
George McKay
as Phil Edwards
Frank C. Wilson
as DeWilde
John Gallaudet
as Larkin
Walter O. Stahl
as Von Hemmer (as Walter Stahl)
Ivan Miller
as Yerkes
Al Bridge
as Sheriff
