Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921 film)
- Mary Pickford: Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
- Claude Gillingwater: Earl of Dorincourt
- Joseph J. Dowling: William Havisham
- James A. Marcus: Silas Hobbs
- Kate Price: Mrs. McGinty
- Fred Malatesta: Dick, the shoeshine boy
- Rose Dione: Minna Tipton
- Arthur Thalasso: the stranger
- Colin Kenny: Bevis
- Frances Marion: Minna's son
- Emmett King: Rev. Mordaunt
- Madame De Bodamere: Mrs. Higgins
Little Lord Fauntleroy is a silent film starring Mary Pickford from the year 1921.
Action
In the 1880s the boy Cedric " Ceddie " Errol grows after the death of his father in New York with his American mother Mrs. Errol and the Servant of Mary. His paternal grandfather, the English Earl of Dorincourt, ignored the family for years because he refuses Americans. But when all other possible heirs died, he sends his administrator Havisham to New York to bring Cedric to England. Mrs. Errol hesitates, then she travels with her son to England for the grandfather. Although Cedric now bears the title "Lord", but his mother can not live with him in the castle, but only in a nearby homestead. Cedric soon conquered the hearts of the people in the castle and the first of his strict grandfather.
As Mr. Havisham learns that Cedric but should not be the right heir. The American Minna Tipton explained that her son Tom also grandson of the Earl, was born before Cedric and thus the rightful heir. Cedric writes of them in one of his letters to America to his friend, the grocer Silas Hobbs. Another friend, the shoeshine boy Dick, Minna recognizes on a photo mitgeschickten than his brother Ben former wife. Tom is their son in truth. Hobbs, Dick and Ben travel together to England and expose Minna as a fibber.
While Cedric should receive training appropriate to exercise its role as an aristocrat, finds a parallel development in his grandfather instead. Originally, only the intention of the very positive image that Cedric from his grandfather, not to contradict, the cold-hearted old man actually changed. He begins his responsibility for his subordinates, and especially the need to meet and gradually showing interest and willingness to help. Even Cedric's mother is finally ready to move into the castle to her son.
Background
The movie was filmed in Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett on the novel.
The film took a remarkable 1.1 million dollars for that time. He became one of the great successes of Mary Pickford, who played both Lord Fauntleroy and his mother, and was responsible for the production. Her brother Jack Pickford and the renowned director Alfred E. Green led Director.
As Mary Pickford the two roles assumed, the three-second encounter between the two by the cameraman Charles Rosher had to be rotated a total of 15 hours to leave the scene with various tricks to look real.