Word: fauntleroy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from across the block showed up. They'd mess around with the scenery. Maybe they'd push Porky down and make him cry. And then they'd nab poor sweet Darla. Thank goodness faithful Buckwheat was on hand to trip one of the little villains in the Little Lord Fauntleroy suits. Even Alfalfa would get into the act, giving one of those rich kids a good pop in the eye. Back in the Depression, those Little Rascals always...
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...
...North Carolina in the 1930s, the musical, inspired by the novel "Little Lord Fauntleroy," tells of the reconciliation between a mulatto teenage boy with his white grandfather. More than 20 years before the play's story begins, the boy's grandfather refused to recognize his white son's marriage to a Black woman. Now, the Black woman, Elizabeth, and her 18-year-old son, Cedric, leave New York for North Carolina, because the ailing grandfather wishes to meet his grandson...
After composing songs based on the "Little Lord Fauntleroy" story for Alfred's course, Fletcher more fully developed some of the ideas he had worked on in class: he added lyrics, developed characters and changed the setting of the story...