Little Women (1933)

Synopsis: The first motion picture based on Louisa May Alcott's gently humorous 1869 classic of four sisters who learn moral lessons and grow from children to adults in Civil War-era Massachusetts, this film... The first motion picture based on Louisa May Alcott's gently humorous 1869 classic of four sisters who learn moral lessons and grow from children to adults in Civil War-era Massachusetts, this film chronicles the lives of the teenage March sisters Jo (Katharine Hepburn), Meg (Frances Dee), Amy (Joan Bennett), and Beth (Jean Parker), who, in the company of their mother, try to maintain positive attitudes in the face of hardship. Hepburn infuses her role with a raw, awkward energy, revealing a vividness and buoyancy beneath her Victorian reserve. The movie, like the novel, is unapologetically sentimental, playing skillfully at the heart strings; based on an Oscar-winning adaptation by Victor Heerman and Sarah Mason and able direction by George Cukor, it is careful to avoid clichés, developing into an authentically moving story. [More]

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, Jean Parker

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, Jean Parker, Edna May Oliver, Paul Lukas, Henry Stephenson, Douglass Montgomery, John Lodge, Spring Byington

Director: George Cukor

Director: George Cukor
Screenwriter: Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason
Story: Louisa May Alcott
Composer: Max Steiner
Producer: Kenneth MacGowan

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