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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 16 November, 1933 DVD Release : 06 November, 2001 |
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Little Women (1933) description Louisa May Alcott's beloved story is one of the most-read novels ever written. It has also proved popular film and telefilm fodder (at least six versions plus a TV series). In addition, Little Women is one of those rare literary projects that can truly be done well on screen. This, the 1933 version, chronicles the lives and loves of sisters Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth (played, respectively, by Katharine Hepburn, Frances Dee, Joan Bennett, and Jean Parker). It's a superior rendering to the amiable, perky 1949 version with June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, and Peter Lawford, and comparable to the beautiful, feminist Gillian Armstrong 1994 take. Douglass Montgomery's Laurie isn't nearly as dreamy as Christian Bale's (1994), but the lack of chemistry between him and Hepburn's Jo is perfect for the story, in which Jo loves him like a brother. Jo's real love she offers up to perhaps the finest Professor Bhaer (Paul Lukas). Character actress Edna May Oliver is at her indignant best as Aunt March. Director George Cukor's vision is elegant, warm, and as true to the original source material as 117 minutes allows. This Little Women was a huge box-office hit, and broke all the records to that time. --N.F. Mendoza |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | a beautiful early film with Katharine Hepburn and a stellar cast..... |
| I actually saw this 1933 version of LITTLE WOMEN after I had watched the 1994 adaptation, directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Winonah Ryder (among other fine actresses). This, the first of many attempts to bring Louisa May Alcott's book to the screen, is nothing short of lovely. Directed by George Cukor, and starring Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, with Frances Dee (Meg), Jean Parker (Beth) and Joan Bennett (Amy), this film is engaging and well captures the beauty of the story. Based on Alcott's formative years, spent in Germantown, Pennsylvania, we see the strong bond amongst the four March sisters and their mother, Marmee March (Spring Byington), as they await the return of their father from his time spent as chaplain in the Union Army.
Though, some have criticized this version, I love and appreciate it for its beauty, sensitivity and warmth. This was just the beginning of a brilliant career, for (then) twenty-five year old Katharine Hepburn. Don't miss out on this one! |
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