Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980 film)
Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1980 British family drama television film directed by Jack Gold and adapted by Blanche Hanalis from Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 children's novel of the same name. The film stars Alec Guinness, Rick Schroder, Eric Porter, Connie Booth, and Colin Blakely.
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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.
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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).