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Little Women (1933)

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Reviews Counted:10

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Average Rating:8.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins

Genre: Dramas

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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With the direction of Cukor in the second of four versions of this clasic, Katharine Hepburn, as the sensitive tomboy Jo, gives an extraordinary performance, desefvedly winning the Actress Award from the 1934 Venice Film Festival.

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Star-graced Cukor production is classic.

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Steve Crum
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Kansas City Kansan

Part comedy of manners, part morality tale, Little Women is more interested in its heroines "conquering themselves" than in a man conquering their hearts.

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Steven D. Greydanus
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Decent Films Guide

Released during the depths of the Depression, Little Women buoyed Americans' spirits. It still does.

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The film begins in a gentle fashion and slips away smoothly without any forced attempt to help the finish to linger in the minds of the audience.

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A solid adaptation and crisp direction by Cukor.

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A twee fantasy of frictionless sorority and romantic deaths as scant diversion from the carnage of the Civil War.

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Walter Chaw
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The third of nine adaptations of the film to date, the 1933 Little Women is nonetheless one of the better versions of the book, and it can be forgiven a lot due to its age and era.

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Little Women (1933) is one of the best-made film renditions of the Louisa May Alcott Civil War-era tale of a family of four sisters in New England, from director George Cukor.

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