Little Lord Fauntleroy

film by Cromwell [1936]

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  • A black-and-white photo of John Cromwell in a suit, smoking a pipe, seated on a film set with a large vintage camera and equipment, circa 1939.
    In John Cromwell: Early career

    …company, hired Cromwell to direct Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), a tasteful treatment of the popular novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett; the family drama starred Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney. Later in 1936 Cromwell made two films for Twentieth Century-Fox: To Mary—with Love, a marital drama starring Myrna Loy and Warner

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