- "I have millions of fans, but I don't have one real friend. That French girl has eleven friends."
- ―Sugar Dimples on Madeline
Sugar Dimples is a supporting character in the Madeline animated series, making her debut in Madeline in Hollywood, and later appearing in Madeline and the Haunted Castle, and then again in Madeline and the Tea Party. She is a child actress from Hollywood. Sugar is a reference to the 1930s child actress Shirley Temple.
Appearance[]
Sugar is a American girl with neon green eyes, shoulder-length blonde hair which is styled in ringlets.
In Season 1 on her first debut, she initially wears a short sleeved red dress with a white collar and two buttons. She initially wears this in her appearance in Madeline and the Tea Party. Later during taping, she wears a brown vest with pale yellow long sleeved shirt with the sleeves reach to her elbows and a red neckerchief, a yellow-green long skirt with two light yellow linings at the edge and black shoes and white socks. She also wears a yellow-green beret on her head and make-up on her face.
In Season 2, the color of her casual dress is changed to pink. Later, when she sleeps with Madeline and the other girls, she wears their pale yellow long sleeved nightgown with a white collar and a matching frill packet and a single button at the center.
In her appearance in Season 3, she now wears a second casual outfit, a pink sleeveless dress with a light pink frilly collar and both folded sleeves and the frill linings are light pink. Her dress is adorned with a purple belt with a bow and purple shoes and white socks. She also wears a black fashionable coat upon meeting with Madeline and her friends. While sleeping with the girls, Sugar wears their lavender long-sleeved nightgown and her white frill packet at the center was slightly shortened and the center button is now in a shape of a teardrop.
Personality[]
in Madeline in Hollywood, Sugar initially appeared being mean, snobbish and bratty towards other people. It is later revealed that Sugar's bratty exterior is because she is lonely and unhappy. Sugar later redeem and befriended Madeline after she teaches her that in order to make a friend, she has to be one. She occasionally joins her and the other girls--and sometimes Pepito in their adventures both in the United States and France.
In Madeline and the Haunted Castle, Sugar later reveals that she was homesick and misses her mother very much, showing her very closeness to her mother. Sugar also shows her dislike of frog legs when the chef prepared a French cuisine for her, much to her disgust.
In Madeline and the Tea Party, Sugar also displays her materialistic side when the girls have prepared a tea party for Lord Cucuface. Despite her complete preparations, Lord Cucuface seems off about the party setup that she had made leads into a disaster, resulted her crying remorsefully and being consoled by Madeline. She later corrected herself to follow the girls' preparation of the simplistic tea party for Lord Cucuface which it was succeeded.
Quotes[]
- "Being a star is such a strain, if my silly fans only knew how hard I work." -- Sugar's preparations for the next scene with Madeline in it.
- "It's all her fault! I don't want her in my movie! Fire her!" -- Sugar's reaction after she breaks a vase on accident.
- "I know you all meant well, but this is the worst halloween ever!" [cries] -- Sugar's lament after she and the girls fail to have a decent Halloween.
- Madeline and Sugar make amends at the end of Madeline and the Haunted Castle:
- "I'm sorry for calling you a brat, Sugar."
- "No, I was a brat. I just didn't want to admit... you all scared me!"
Trivia[]
- Whilst Sugar Dimples is based on Shirley Temple, Temple herself had actually produced a Madeline adaptation in an episode of The Shirley Temple Show.
- Additionally, among films Temple had appeared in was titled Dimples, like her surname.
- In the end of Madeline in Hollywood, the narrator depicts her as the thirteenth girl being sided with Madeline and the other girls.