Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914 film)

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Little Lord Fauntleroy
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Advertisement in The Bioscope, 16 April 1914
Directed by Floyd Martin Thornton
Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett (novel)
Production
company
Distributed byKineto (UK)
Shubert Feature Film (US)
Release date
April 1914
Running time
1,609 m (5 reels)
59 min 35 s
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by Floyd Martin Thornton and starring H. Agar Lyons, Gerald Royston in the title role, and Jane Wells. [1] It was based on the 1886 novel Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett. [2] The film was produced by the Natural Color Kinematograph Company. It was distributed in the UK by Kineto Ltd. and released in the US by Shubert Feature Film (later World Film Company) in April of that year. [1] [3] It was one of the first feature-length films to be made in colour, using the Kinemacolor two-colour additive colour process.

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Originally, Joan Morgan had been considered for the part of Cedric Erroll as Lord Fauntleroy, before 13-year old Gerald Royston was given the role. Born in 1901 and the younger brother of Roy Royston, the British child actor appeared in silent films from 1913 to 1915. [4] His casting in Little Lord Fauntleroy was one of the earliest starring roles for a child actor in a feature-length film.

An advertisement in the cinema trade journal Bioscope cited English writer Effie Albanesi's praise of the film. She called it "excellent" and commended the film's adaptation of Burnett's novel, saying, "the acting of the boy [Royston] was wonderful". [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914)". British Film Institute . Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  2. Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter (1999) p. 840.
  3. Lewis, Kevin. A World across from Broadway II: Filmography of the World Film Corporation, 1913-1922, Indiana University Press (1987), p. 164. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  4. Holmstrom, John (1996). The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, UK: Michael Russell. p. 13. ISBN   0859551784.
  5. The Bioscope (16 April 1914), vol. 23, number 392.