Word: fauntleroy
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...rich boy versus poor boys, but give the rich boy an English accent and an English father-architect struggling for a living while his well-to-do wife cavorts in Florida, and you have a slightly different situation. Both the devil and the sissy are the pert, Fauntleroy-like Freddie Bartholomew, who distinguishes himself above his older colleagues, where acting is required. In places the reform story of the son of an executed murderer and the son of a voluble A.E.F. veteran who made "the world safe for democracy," drags. It is maudlin to hear the judge in the juvenile...
...Country Beyond (Twentieth Century-Fox) is a James Oliver Curwood story containing a great deal of snow and a large St. Bernard dog named Buck, which has appeared in Call of the Wild and Little Lord Fauntleroy. More restful to the eye & ear than most cinemanimals, easy-going Buck is antisocial to the point of declining to take sides between his mistress (Rochelle Hudson) and a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman (Robert Kent) who has her in custody because she helped her father escape after being caught with stolen furs. When the girl endeavors to mush off through the snow, Buck...
Freddie Bartholomew, 11, George Arliss of child actors, gets an estimated $1,250 a week from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he impersonates immature characters like the heroes of David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Professional Soldier with incongruously mature dignity. Last week, Cinemactor Bartholomew was the central figure in as incongruously childish a legal mess as Hollywood, which specializes in such affairs, has produced in a long time...
...Little Lord Fauntleroy," with Freddle Bartholemew, C. Aubrey Smith, capable supporting cast, the audience watches Freddie win the heart of his grandfather--the Lord Dorincourt and everyone else in the cast. Freddie is an unusually talented actor and performs his part, which is sweet and sickly anyway, creditably. You wince every time he calls his mother "Dearest," however, and only in several happy scenes where the old Lord figures are you relieved from monotonous and nerve-racking demonstrations of sorrow. The straight story in "Little Lord Fauntleroy," as a matter of fact, is strongly reminiscent of the burlesque melodrama...
...screen by Hugh Walpole, beautifully staged, and superbly directed by John Cromwell, it affords proof that Selznick International is off to a flying start and offers an actors' holiday to Freddie Bartholomew, C. Aubrey Smith and Dolores Costello Barrymore, recalled from retirement to play the role of "Dearest," Fauntleroy's mother...