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It takes a good deal of courage to film ,i i lassie, not to speak of other little things besides But
courage, firstly, because everybody has read it and everybody visualises it in ,i different way. In the ase oi LittU Lord Fauntleroy, however, (Ydric's " velvet suit and fair curls. " Earl's " tallness, severity and militarv precision, and " Dearest 's " gentle sweetness, are all accurately described h\ Frances Hodgson Burnett. Straight from the story, too, come the settings streets in New York as they looked when ladies wore voluminous dresses, ami bonnets instead ol hats. The English settings, too, though filmed partly at Burlinghame, California (exteriors) and in the Brunton studios, Los Angeles, are as realistic as they are artistic, and the great rooms of Dorincourt was the most elaborate set ever put up. It was ol plaster, like all movie sets, and k
i insisted of four huge rooms, richlyfurnished and arranged Everything was so huge and towering, that the tiny figure of Mary Pickford as the little Lord" looks even tinier than usual. In one or other of the two roles (Mary plays both " Cedric " an< his mother), the star appears in every scene of the film ; sometimes she is seen in both parts, a triumph this, of double photography. For Mary looks at least half a head taller as " Dearest than she does as " Cedric " ! How did she do it ? Was it high heels and a wig with curls piled high a-top of her
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Little Lord FaurjtlerO
MAY 1922
head ? Was it the camera's secret ? Nobody knows, for Mary will not say. She only shakes her pretty head wiseiy and smiles. When Fauntleroy was filmed, Douglas Fairbanks was at work on the next set, and he supervised the fight between " Cedric " and " Bevis " (Colin Kenny). The way the little lord attacks whirlwind fashion is typical of " Doug." From strong emotion to wild comedy the story travels, giving exceptional acting chances to the star and the cast. All the dearly-beloved characters are there: " Mrs. Higgins " and her happy family of twelve, ' The Grocer " (James Marcus, who played the same role on the stage in 1888), " The Irish Applewoman " (Kate Price), and " The Bootblack " (Fred Malatesta). Madame Bodamere, who plays " Mrs. Higgins," is Mary Pickford's own wardrobe mistress and personal friend, and amongst her little brood of children will be seen Howard Ralston, William and Florence O'Rourke and Cordon Griffith (all appeared in ['olivet una), Violet Kadcliffe, May Fainter, and Boyd Ackerman (to be seen this month in The Love Light as well), and Florence Egan, who has not played with Mary Pickford since Daddy Long-Legs.
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