Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1936 American drama film based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, and C.Aubrey Smith. The first film produced by David O. Selznick's Selznick International Pictures, it was the studio's most profitable film until Gone with the Wind. The film is directed by John Cromwell.
Plot
Young Cedric "Ceddie" Errol (Freddie Bartholomew) and his widowed mother, whom he calls "Dearest" (Dolores Costello), live frugally in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's prejudiced English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt (C.Aubrey Smith), had long ago disowned his son for marrying an American.
Cast
- Alec Craig
- Arthur Blake
- C. Aubrey Smith
- Constance Collier
- Dick Jones
- Dolores Costello
- E. E. Clive
- Eily Malyon
- Fred Walton
- Freddie Bartholomew
- George Atkinson
- Gilbert Emery
- Guy Kibbee
- Helen Flint
- Henry Stephenson
- Ivan Simpson
- J. P. McGowan
- Jessie Ralph
- Lawrence Grant
- Lionel Belmore
- Mary Gordon
- Mary MacLaren
- May Beatty
- Mickey Rooney
- Reginald Barlow
- Robert Bolder
- Robert Emmett O'Connor
- Tempe Pigott
- Tom Ricketts
- Una O'Connor
- Virginia Field
- Walter Kingsford
More details
| author | Hugh Walpole |
|---|---|
| director | John Cromwell |
| editor | Hal C. Kern |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | british society brooklyn disown jackie searl live at widowed mother |
| musicBy | Max Steiner |
| producer | David O. Selznick |
| productionCompany | Selznick International Pictures |
| publisher | United Artists |