Little Lord Fauntleroy | |
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Directed by | John Cromwell |
Screenplay by | Hugh Walpole |
Based on | Little Lord Fauntleroy 1886 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Produced by | David O. Selznick |
Starring | Freddie Bartholomew Dolores Costello C. Aubrey Smith |
Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
Edited by | Hal C. Kern |
Music by | Max Steiner |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $590,000[1]: 206 |
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.[2]
The film was critically well received and is now in the public domain.[3] In 2012 it was released on Blu-ray Disc by Kino Lorber, following a restoration by the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department.