Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1936 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. Selznicks Selznick International Pictures, it was the studios most profitable film until Gone With the Wind.

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. Cedrics prejudiced English grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt C.Aubrey Smith, had long ago disowned his son for marrying an American.The earl sends his lawyer Havisham Henry Stephenson to bring Ceddie to England. As the earls sons are all dead, Ceddie is the heir to the title. Mrs.Errol accompanies her son to England, but is not allowed to live at Dorincourt castle. For Cedrics happiness, she does not tell him it is because of his grandfathers bigotry. The earls lawyer is impressed with the young widows wisdom. However, the earl expresses skepticism when Mr.Havisham informs him that Cedrics mother will not accept an allowance from him. ........

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