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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...
...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...
Tower has taken to calling Krueger, who is 43, unmarried and the inheritor of a medium-sized family fortune, Little Lord Fauntleroy. Not to be outdone, a Krueger aide recently sent an article to newspaper editors all over the state which insinuates that Tower is a womanizer who likes his whiskey. The ploy so incensed Tower that he canceled four joint T.V. appearances with Krueger, claiming that his rival is "uninhibited by the truth." Last week Tower refused to shake hands with Krueger, who has yet to apologize for the mailing of the article. That's serious business...
...show!" Darla would heave amorously at the dynamism of the idea, and Alfalfa would get the lead as chief crooner. (Buckwheat, of course had to build scenery and sell tickets.) Eventually the rich kids down the street, unmitigatedly evil and oversized in their velvet Fauntleroy suits would come around to tear down the stage and abduct Darla. Like little well-dressed Huns they would attack until sandbagged by the faithful stagehand Buckwheat or popped in the eye by Captain Spanky. In these Depression allegories, the bullies always ended up running, torn and muddied, back to their monocled mamas while...