Tucci, Shawn, Krakowski, Etc. Set for 'American Girl' Film

According to the Hollywood Reporter, a star-studded cast - including several Broadway veterans - has been assembled for the upcoming HBO Films feature Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery.

Directed by Patricia Rozema and featuring a screenplay by Ann Peacock, the film will star Stanley Tucci (Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune), Wallace Shawn (The Fever) and Tony Award-winner Jane Krakowski (Nine), as well as Joan Cusack, Chris O'Donnell, Julia Ormond, Glenne Headley and young actors Max Thieriot, Madison Davenport, Zach Mills and Willow Smith.  Oscar-nominated Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin will take on the title role.

According to the magazine, the film is "the first theatrical adaptation of the popular American Girl line of dolls, (and) tells the story of Kit Kittredge (Breslin), a clever, resourceful 10-year-old growing up in Cincinnati during the Great Depression who helps her mother (Ormond) run a boardinghouse when her father (O'Donnell) loses his job."  Shawn will appear as the editor-in-chief of the Cincinnati Reporter Register.

Photo of Jane Krakowski by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.