Little Lord Fauntleroy Page #2

Synopsis: After the death of Cedric ('Ceddie')'s English father, he and his mother live together in Brooklyn. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, had disowned Cedric's father when he married an American. But when the Earl's remaining son dies, he accepts Cedric as Lord Fauntleroy, his heir, and the Earl sends for Cedric and his mother. Cedric uses the first of his newly found wealth to do some favors for his old friends, and then heads to England, where he must try to overcome the Earl's dislike for Cedric's mother.
Genre: Drama, Family
Director(s): John Cromwell
Production: United Artists
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
83%
PASSED
Year:
1936
102 min
356 Views


- Only?

Well, oh, Dick's coming very soon and

I was thinking, oh, if we could wait.

I guess there'll be enough to go around.

There's a lump coming,

I think, quite a big one!

What are you reading, Mr. Hobbs?

Ah! That's the way they go on now.

British aristocracy!

I've got no use for 'em - earls and

marquises goin' around as if they was

lords of creation, wearin' their coronets.

Did you ever know any marquises, Mr. Hobbs,

or earls? - No, I should say not.

I'd just like to catch one of 'em

inside here, that's all!

I'll have no graspin' tyrant sittin'

around on my cracker barrels!

Perhaps they wouldn't be earls

if they knew any better.

Oh, wouldn't they though!

They just glory in it! It's in 'em.

They're a bad lot.

Here you are, Dick. Just in time

for Ceddie's birthday feast.

Jimminity... ginger pop and everything!

Here's to your health, Ceddie.

Many happy birthdays!

Thank you very much, Mr. Hobbs.

Why, Mary?

Come on home, darlin'.

The mistress is wanting ya.

Oh, glory be! Would you look at your face!

I'm very sorry, Mr. Hobbs, but I shan't be

able to stay for the feast.

Is anything wrong with the Dearest?

- Not at all. Sure, there's nothin' the matter.

What's happened, Mary?

- Now, don't be askin' me any questions.

But there's the queer, strange things

happenin' to us.

If you'll forgive me, Mrs. Errol, you must

not disregard the great position

to which your son has fallen heir through

the death of his uncle, your late husband's brother.

But what it amounts to, Mr. Havisham, is

that you want to take my boy away.

Mrs. Errol, you must remember

that I'm acting quite impersonally

and simply as the lawyer of the earl of Dorincourt.

The earl of Dorincourt disowned his son

and has refused to recognize

his grandson until now.

Why should I give up my boy?

I'm afraid I've been very stupid,

Mrs. Errol. I should have told you.

My instructions are that you shall accompany

Lord Fauntleroy to England. - Oh!

However, I must remind you that Lord

Dorincourt is not very friendly towards you.

He's an old man and has always

had very strong prejudices

against America and Americans and was

bitterly opposed to his son's marriage.

He's fixed in his determination

not to see you.

You will live at the lodge and a suitable

income will be provided for you.

The only stipulation is that you make no attempt

to visit your son in the castle,

nor even enter the Park Gates.

There's your sister, Mary.

Hello, Bridget. Why, what's the matter?

It's Michael! He's worse and we've no

money we can't pay the rent.

I don't know what...

- Now, Bridget, I've

more important things to attend to!

I wonder what your husband's wishes

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in Jefferson City, Tennessee. There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870, her mother died, and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowrie's), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess. Burnett enjoyed socializing and lived a lavish lifestyle. Beginning in the 1880s, she began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden. Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. A few years later she settled in Nassau County, New York, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery. In 1936 a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honour in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon. more…

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