Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)
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.
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)
Dolores Costello and Freddie Bartholomew
Freddie Bartholomew, Guy Kibbee
Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney
Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's in 1886. The illustrations by Reginald B. Birch set fashion trends and the novel set a precedent in copyright law when Burnett won a lawsuit in 1888 against E. V. Seebohm over the rights to theatrical adaptations of the work.
First edition cover
An illustration by Birch from 1886
Lobby card from the 1921 film adaptation starring Mary Pickford
Elsie Leslie in the Broadway production of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1888).