This movie has become a Christmas classic on German television and has been shown their broadcast network Das Erste almost annually, attracting millions of viewers every time.
Reportedly, this movie was the first time that the title role of "Little Lord Fauntleroy", a character who is an American boy, had been played by an experienced boy actor with an authentic American background.
After Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914), Le Petit Lord Fauntleroy (1921) and Le petit Lord Fauntleroy (1936), this was the fourth film version of "Little Lord Fauntleroy".
The library is shown seven times in the movie, and each time the chairs and tables by the fireplace are in a different configuration.
This movie was released ninety-five years after its source novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett was published.