Little Lord Fauntleroy | |
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Directed by |
Alfred E. Green Jack Pickford |
Written by | Bernard McConville |
Based on |
Little Lord Fauntleroy 1886 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Produced by | Mary Pickford |
Starring | Mary Pickford |
Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
Music by |
Gaylord Carter Louis F. Gottschalk |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages |
Silent English intertitles |
Box office | $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]
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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.
A young Milton Berle appears in an uncredited role.
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.