Anna Karenina 1935  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Reginald Denny, Dennis O'Keefe, May Robson, Reginald Owen, Joan Marsh
Greta Garbo takes on the title role in this film, which tells Leo Tolstoy's story about a woman who gives up everything to be with Count Vronsky (Fredric March); but happiness is elusive.
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 Captains Courageous 1937 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney, Charley Grapewin, John Carradine, Leo G. Carroll, Charles Trowbridge, Jack La Rue
Spencer Tracy won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in this film about a Portuguese fisherman. When a wealthy, spoiled boy (Freddie Bartholomew) falls overboard off an ocean liner, he learns about life and hard work from the fishermen who rescue him. Based on the Rudyard Kipling classic.
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David Copperfield 1935 N/R, 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: W.C. Fields, Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Basil Rathbone, Roland Young, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Madge Evans, Edna May Oliver
Mr. Mudstone (Basil Rathbone), Wikins Micawber (W.C. Fields), and Uriah Heap (Roland Young) are all there as David Copperfield starts out as a poor boy and grows up to be a wealthy man in London. The young David is played by Freddie Bartholomew, while Frank Lawton plays the older David.
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Kidnapped 1938  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Cast: Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, Arleen Whelan, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, John Carradine, Nigel Bruce, Miles Mander, E.E. Clive, Halliwell Hobbes
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, this is the story of David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew) who inherits a fortune and is kidnapped by his evil uncle. David meets Alan Breck (Warner Baxter),and the two travel across Scotland to regain what is rightfully his.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Mickey Rooney, Constance Collier, E.E. Clive, Una O'Connor, Jessie Ralph
This is a well-done version of the classic where a boy from New York becomes a British lord.
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St. Benny the Dip 1951  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Escape If You Can
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Dick Haymes, Nina Foch, Roland Young, Lionel Stander, Freddie Bartholomew, Oscar Karlweis, William A. Lee, Dick Gordon, Jean Casto, Eddie Wells, Dort Clark, James Bender
Three con artists (Dick Haymes, Roland Young, and Lionel Stander) disguise themselves as clergymen, and the ploy works. In fact, it works so well that they are accepted as real clergymen at a skid row mission and end up going straight.
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Swiss Family Robinson 1940 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Edward Ludwig
Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Terry Kilburn, Tim Holt, Christian Rub, John Wray, Herbert Rawlinson, Orson Welles, Bobbie Quillan
Based on Johann David Wyss' novel, this is the story of a shipwrecked family who learn how to survive on a small South Seas island. Welles narrates opening scenes.
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Tom Brown's School Days 1940 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Adventures at Rugby
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Josephine Hutchinson, Billy Halop, Polly Moran, Hughie Green, Ernest Cossart, Alec Craig, Gale Storm, Barlowe Borland, Forrester Harvey
Despite the fact that the new headmaster at Rugby boarding school, Doctor Arnold (Cedric Hardwicke) has a reputation for lack of discipline, Squire Brown (Ernest Cossart) supports his policy and sends his son, Tom (Jimmy Lydon), to Rugby. When Tom arrives at the school and immediately suffers from the hazing of school bullies, Tom has a solution: organize the other students to fight back, any way they can, against the bullies.
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The Town Went Wild 1944  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ralph Murphy
Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Edward Everett Horton, Tom Tully, Jill Browning, Minna Gombell, Ruth Lee, Roberta Smith, Maude Eburne, Charles Halton, Ferris Taylor, Jimmy Conlin
Neighbors Everett Conway (Edward Everett Horton) and Henry Harrison (Tom Tully) have been feuding for years, and now Everett's son, David (Freddie Bartholomew), and Henry's daughter, Marian (Minna Gombell), have fallen in love. New information indicates that Everett's and Henry's sons may have been switched at birth and that Marian is about to marry her blood brother. Comedy ensues, and then the truth about their identities is revealed.
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| 1. Anna Karenina (1935)
2. Captains Courageous (1937)
3. David Copperfield (1935)
4. Kidnapped (1938)
5. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
6. Lord Jeff (1938)
7. St. Benny the Dip (1951)
aka: Escape If You Can
8. Swiss Family Robinson (1940)
9. Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
aka: Adventures at Rugby
10. The Town Went Wild (1944)
11. A Yank at Eton (1942)
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