Little Women (1933 film)
Little Women is a 1933 American PreCode drama film, directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, and Jean Parker. The screenplay, by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, is based on the 1868 novel of the same name, by Louisa May Alcott.
Set in Concord, Massachusetts, during and after the American Civil War, the film is a series of vignettes focusing on the struggles and adventures of the four March sisters and their mother, affectionately known as Marmee Spring Byington, while they await the return of their father, who serves as a colonel and a chaplain in the Union Army. Spirited tomboy Jo Katharine Hepburn, who caters to the whims of their welltodo Aunt March Edna May Oliver, dreams of becoming a famous author, and she writes plays for her sisters to perform for the local children. Amy Joan Bennett is pretty but selfish, Meg Frances Dee works as a seamstress, and sensitive Beth Jean Parker practices on her clavichord, an aging instrument sorely in need of tuning.The girls meet Laurie Douglass Montgomery, who has come to live with his grandfather, Mr. Laurence Henry Stephenson, the Marches wealthy nextdoor neighbor. The Laurences invite them to a lavish party, where Meg meets Lauries tutor, John Brooke John Lodge. During the next several months John courts Meg, Jos first short story becomes published, and Beth often takes advantage of Mr. Laurences offer for her to practice on his piano. ........
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