Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921 film) explained

Little Lord Fauntleroy
Director:	Alfred E. Green Jack Pickford
Producer:	Mary Pickford
Starring:	Mary Pickford
Music:	Gaylord Carter Louis F. Gottschalk
Cinematography:	Charles Rosher
Distributor:	United Artists
Runtime:	112 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent English intertitles
Gross:	$900,000 (USA)^[1]

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford and starring the latter's elder sister Mary Pickford as both Cedric Errol and Widow Errol. The film is based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett.^[2] A statue depicting Pickford's role exists today on the facade of New York City's landmarked I. Miller Building.^[3]

Plot summary

Cedric Errol is a poor American boy who finds out that he is the sole heir to a wealthy British earldom and thus becomes Lord Fauntleroy.

Cast

• Mary Pickford as Cedric Errol and his mother Mrs Errol
• Claude Gillingwater as Earl of Dorincourt
• Joseph J. Dowling as William Havisham
• James A. Marcus as Hobbs
• Kate Price as Mrs. McGinty
• Fred Malatesta as Dick
• Rose Dione as Minna
• Arthur Thalasso as The Stranger
• Colin Kenny as Bevis
• Emmett King as Reverend Mr Mordaunt

A young Milton Berle appears in an uncredited role.

See also

• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

External links

• • • • • Little Lord Fauntleroy at SilentEra

Notes and References

1. Book: Balio , Tino . United Artists: The Company Built By Stars . 2009 . . 978-0-299-23004-3 . p42
2. Web site: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921). IMDb. March 2, 2013.
3. News: In Times Square, a New Landmark: I. Miller Building, With 4 Calder Sculptures; There's No Business Like Shoe Business . And the winners were: for opera, Rosa Ponselle in the title role of Norma; for movies, Mary Pickford in the title role of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921); for musical comedy, Marilyn Miller in the title role of Sunny (1925) and for drama, Ethel Barrymore as Ophelia, a non-title role. . . July 4, 1999 . January 29, 2014.