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Word: dorincourt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alec Guinness may have abandoned his Star Wars' light-sword for a more earthly riding crop, but the Force is still with him. In Little Lord Fauntleroy, a CBS-TV movie, he plays the Earl of Dorincourt, a crusty old gaffer gradually softened by his grandson's winsome ways. Guinness, 66, who found himself "with a moist eye now and then" while reading his part, was beguiled by his young costar, Ricky Schroder, 10, who plays the Brooklyn tot turned aristocrat. (This is the third movie version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic: Mary Pickford played "Fauntleroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 22, 1980 | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

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