Little Women

    Little Women
    1949

    Synopsis

    Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

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    Cast

    • June AllysonJo
    • Peter LawfordTheodore "Laurie" Laurence
    • Margaret O'BrienBeth
    • Elizabeth TaylorAmy
    • Janet LeighMeg
    • Rossano BrazziProfessor Bhaer
    • Mary AstorMarmee
    • Lucile WatsonAunt March
    • C. Aubrey SmithMr. Laurence
    • Elizabeth PattersonHannah

    Recommendations

    • 70

      Variety

      The tender story, with its frank and unashamed assault on the emotions, still has its effective moments at times when the sentiment doesn’t grow a little too thick.
    • 70

      Washington Post

      The Technicolor film, while still praised, was not received as well as Cukor’s version.
    • 63

      TV Guide Magazine

      This version is a well-handled retelling of the classic Louisa May Alcott tale.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      If anything, it has hauled back much too briskly on the strings of the heart and has strained a few muscles in the process.
    • 60

      Los Angeles Times

      This one, directed by Mervyn LeRoy for MGM, can get more than a little sappy as we watch this house of pretty adolescents take pretty steps toward their destinies, but it's also affectionately rendered. [15 Dec 1994, p.20]

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