This year’s production of Little Miss ... role of Olive Hoover. Olive is a beauty queen wannabe who awkwardly lacks the poise, talent, and resources of the other girls on the pageant circuit.

Shortly after Sheryl picks Frank up from the hospital after his suicide attempt, the Hoover family receives a message about Olive's acceptance into the Little Miss Sunshine pageant, and only have ...

Little Miss Sunshine was also a big vehicle for Abigail Breslin, who played his hyperactive granddaughter and beauty pageant hopeful, Olive. Breslin, who was nine at the time of filming ...

US actor Alan Arkin, who won an Oscar and a Bafta for his role as the outrageous grandad in the film Little Miss ... Olive, an aspiring beauty queen, in preparation for the pageant, teaching ...

Fox Searchlight/Everett Little Miss Sunshine actress Abigail Breslin is saying goodbye to a ray of light in her life. Breslin, 27, is mourning the loss of her on-screen grandfather, Alan Arkin ...

Hollywood star Alan Arkin, who won an Oscar for playing a cantankerous grandpa in the 2006 comedy Little Miss Sunshine ... can compete in a child beauty pageant. During his lifetime, Arkin ...