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Freddie Bartholomew

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Freddie Bartholomew
  • Birth Name:
    Frederick Llewellyn March
  • Date of Birth:
    March 28, 1924
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Aries
  • Place of Birth:
    London, England
  • Place of Death:
    Sarasota, Florida, United States
  • Date of Death:
    January 23, 1992
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    British

Family

Freddie Bartholomew
  • Spouse:
    Eileen Paul - Divorced
    Maely Daniele - Divorced
    Elizabeth - Deceased

Career

Freddie Bartholomew

Trivia

Freddie Bartholomew
  • One of the most popular child actors in film history, Freddie Bartholomew was born Frederick Llwellyn in Dublin, Ireland, in 1924.
  • He was raised in England by an aunt, Millicent Barthomolew, from whom he took his surname
  • Freddie had appeared on the London stage and in 2 minor British films when on a visit to the U.S. with his aunt in 1934, he was offered the title role in The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935) by MGM.
  • This film made him an overnight star and he went on to appear in such classics as Anna Karenina (1935), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), and Captains Courageous (1937).
  • His salary soared to $2,500 a week making him filmdom's highest paid child star after Shirley Temple.
  • After a stint in the Air Force in World War II, his film career was all but finished.
  • In 1954, he went to work for an advertising agency and remarked at the time that the millions he had earned as a child had been spent mostly on lawsuits, one of which involved a headline court battle in 1937 between his parents and his aunt for custody of young Freddie.
  • "I was drained dry," he said.
  • Freddie Bartholomew died in Florida in 1992 at the age of 67.
  • He leaves a legacy of some of the greatest adventure films of the 1930s.

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