Secrets of an Actress
Secrets of an Actress is a 1938 romantic drama film directed by William Keighley, and starring Kay Francis, George Brent, and Ian Hunter.
It is about a love triangle between a stage actress, her financial backer, and his friend.
Reginald Bathurst Birch
Reginald Bathurst Birch( May 2, 1856 – June 17, 1943) was an English- American artist and illustrator.
He was best known for his depiction of the titular hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel" Little Lord Fauntleroy", which started a craze in juvenile fashion.
While his illustrated corpus has eclipsed his other work, he was also an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914 film)
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.
It was based on the 1886 novel" Little Lord Fauntleroy" by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The film was produced by the Natural Colour 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.
It was one of the first feature- length films to be made in colour, using the Kinemacolor two- colour additive colour process.
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.
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".
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921 film)
Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and Jack Pickford and starred the latter's elder sister Mary Pickford as both Cedric Errol and Widow Errol.
The film is based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
A statue depicting Pickford's role exists today on the facade of New York City's landmarked I. Miller Building.
William Keighley
William Jackson Keighley( August 4, 1889, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 24, 1984, New York, New York) was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director.
After graduating from the Ludlum School of Dramatic Art, Keighley began acting at the age of 23.
By the 1910s and 1920s, he was acting and directing on Broadway.
With the advent of talking pictures, he relocated to Hollywood.
He eventually signed with Warner Bros., where he proved adept at directing in a wide variety of genres.
He was the initial director of" The Adventures of Robin Hood", starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, but was replaced by Michael Curtiz.
During World War II, he supervised the First Motion Picture Unit of the U.S. Army Air Forces.
He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with his actress wife Genevieve Tobin.
In retirement he became an award- winning, renowned still photographer.
He died of a stroke.
Floyd Martin Thornton
Floyd Martin Thornton (4 November 1884–1 April 1956) was an American screenwriter and film director, often credited as F. Martin Thornton.
Born in 1884 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he worked for some years in England.
In 1915 he married the British actress Evelyn Boucher at Steyning in West Sussex.
They had two sons, both born in England: Edward E. Martin (1916–2010) and Paul Mulford Martin (1921–1994).
In 1925 he, his wife and two sons left the UK for America, where they all remained for the rest of their lives.
He died in April 1956 in Orange, California in the USA.
Little Lord Fauntleroy (murder victim)
Little Lord Fauntleroy is the nickname for an unidentified American boy found murdered in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1921.
The Boer War (film)
The Boer War is a 1914 film, directed by George Melford about the Second Boer War.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett( 24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British- born American novelist and playwright.
She is best known for the three children's novels" Little Lord Fauntleroy"( published in 1885 – 1886)," A Little Princess"( 1905), and" The Secret Garden"( 1911).
Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England.
After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee.
There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19.
In 1870, her mother died, and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor.
The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which(" That Lass o' Lowrie's"), was published to good reviews.
" Little Lord Fauntleroy" was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular.
She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of" Little Lord Fauntleroy" and" A Little Princess".
Beginning in the 1880s, Burnett began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote" The Secret Garden".
Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life.
She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902.
A few years later she settled in Nassau County, New York, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery.
In 1936 a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honour in Central Park's Conservatory Garden.
The statue depicts her two famous" Secret Garden" characters, Mary and Dickon.

Question: Which film has the director who was born later, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914 Film) or Secrets Of An Actress?
Answer: Secrets Of An Actress