Little Lord Fauntleroy Page #9

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
374 Views


- Maybe she did - maybe she didn't.

We'd oughta do somethin' about it.

- You're dead right, we'd oughta!

But we gotta get the proper advice.

- Chee, I wisht I knew Alderman Moiphy.

I know Alderman Moiphy.

Ya do? - Yeah, come along,

let's go right now!

Them earls! They've always had a spite

against us Americans ever since the revolution!

What a place! What a hole!

I'm sick to death of it!

Cooped up here week in and week out

with nobody to talk to!

You're complimentary!

- I wasn't meaning to be! - I'm grateful.

You're getting your money, aren't you?

- Business is business, you know.

Business! I'm sick of business! I want

some fun! - Why don't you go to London?

London? Not on your tintype!

Nothing would please that old devil at

the castle better than to see me clear out.

Well, I'll stay here... here in this

rotten country pub if I...

You've lived in worse places, I've no

doubt! - That's none of your business!

You keep a civil tongue or I'll hand you

your walking papers! - I wouldn't.

What do you mean? - Just what I said.

I wouldn't try anything like that, Minna.

I'm Lady Fauntleroy, to you!

- Ha, ha.

Come in!

Why, it's Lord Dorincourt!

Why, this is a pleasure, a real

pleasure, I'm sure. Won't you take a...

Hello, Minna.

Why, hello, Dick.

Why, Ben. What are you doing here?

Where have you been all this time?

You knew her? - Funny, if he didn't...

seein' how he was my second husband.

Where is the child? - What child?

- You know, our boy, Tom.

Oh, Ben, but you know...

You must have heard...

Someone must have told you.

- Told me what?

It was pneumonia. Only three days

and he was gone. It broke my heart.

I meant to write.

I didn't know where you were.

If that's true, who is this

boy you've got with you?

That's none of your business, Ben Tipton!

Can I see him? - You can't! - Tell us why

Mr. Tipton should not see your boy?

Oh, hello, Uncle Dick.

Well, I'll be jiggered!

Mom, honest, I'm sorry...

- Shut up!

You're a dirty pair, comin' to spy on me!

Tryin' to do me hurt!

I'll have the law on ya

for houndin' me, you... you... you...

Silence!

Come here, Tom.

I knew nothing, my lord, I assure you!

There's a little matter of a forged birth

certificate. - But I swear to you!

Never mind, Havisham.

I've had enough of this - too much!

The sooner you are out

of this country, the better!

Come on, Havisham. - You'll be sorry - you will!

It's prosecution, that's what it is - it's robbery!

The Earl of Dorincourt and Ceddie requests

the pleasure of Mr. Silas Hobbs company

on the eleventh of May at

8 p.m. at Dorincourt Castle

of the occasion of the tenth birthday

of his grandson Lord Fauntleroy.

This will be somewhat in the manner

of a museum, my lord?

Not exactly a museum, Mr. Hobbs.

They are portraits of my ancestors.

Your aunt's sisters!["ancestors"] All of them?

Well, I'll be jiggered! Your great-uncle,

he must have had a family!

Did he raise 'em all?

Ah, you mean that they were early

distinguished members of the family.

Do you know, earl, I used to have a very

poor opinion of your aristocracy,

but I've changed. Take you, for instance,

you're a good sort, even if you are an earl!

I'm very gratified.

A bit gay, wasn't he? - Yes, that's why

I have the gout, Mr. Hobbs.

Oh!

And they was all earls! And Ceddie's

goin' to be one and own all this!

And he'll be worthy of it, Mr. Hobbs.

- Sure he will.

All these earls!

Do you know, I wouldn't have

minded bein' one myself! - Hmm!

Speech! Speech! Speech!

Speech! Speech!

Thank you very much.

It's such a lovely day. I always like having

birthdays, but never one so much as this,

because you're all so kind to me.

My grandfather wants everybody to be

happy and comfortable

and I'll want it too when I'm grown up.

I think that's all, because I'm not very

good of making speeches.

But I must say that I'm very much obliged

to you for liking my birthday.

Ripping little nipper!

- Ain't he a daisy?

I'll bet you boids elect him king some day!

I didn't know the little feller

could talk so good.

He makes a better speech than

Alderman Murphy - by Jove.

Ugh, well, I'll be jiggered!

And I've another birthday present for you.

Another one, besides all the things this

morning? - Yes, the best of them all.

Oh, Dearest!

Oh, Dearest!

Oh, Dearest, I was wanting you here!

I was wanting you here so terribly much!

Were you, darling?

Fauntleroy, your mother has

come to live in the castle.

To live with us, to live with us for always?

- Are you sure you really want me?

We always wanted you, but we

weren't exactly aware of it.

Well, Mr. Hobbs, it's so nice

having you here with us.

I dread to think of you

going back to America.

Not to live there!

America's a good enough country for

them that's young and stirrin',

but there's faults in it! There's not an

aunt's sister among 'em, nor an earl!

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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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