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7.2/10
8.3K
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The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
C. Aubrey Smith
- Mr. Laurence
- (as Sir C. Aubrey Smith)
Dorothy Abbott
- Schoolgirl - Davis's Class
- (uncredited)
Marci Booth
- Schoolgirl - Davis's Class
- (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs
- Old Crony at Grace's Store
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAll of the sisters (June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, and Janet Leigh) reportedly got along terrifically, like a real sorority. Allyson, who was several years older than most of her co-stars, managed to relate to the younger women and form strong bonds with them.
- GoofsMarmee is checking on the girls to make sure they are asleep. She picks up the "oil" lamp at the top of the stairs and the electric cord is visible running along her sleeve for a moment.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership (1949)
- SoundtracksJosephine
(1933) (uncredited)
from Little Women (1933)
Music by Max Steiner
used as a main theme in the score
Featured review
This Movie represents one of the finest most beautifully filmed of all of MGM's costum drama's from that era.
The opening scenes of Little Women are so beautifully captured on film that it looks almost like a Currier and Ives post card. It is so magically evocative of a New England in the early 1860's that the viewer is transported to that time visually and emotionally. The characters are so well crafted, warm and human that you truly wish you knew them. The way the movie glides through the season's, from the deep snows of winter, to the bright flowers of spring, through the summer into the golden hues of autumn each season is so wonderfully captured that viewers one hundred years from now will feel that they time tripped to that age so long ago. With the brutal civil war as the backdrop to the play, the movie tells the sensitive and gentle story of four young sister's on the homefront. Each sister is defined and likeable. Brought to life brilliently by June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor and Margaret O'Brien. Each actress captured fully the innocents, decency and depth of their roles, imprinting forever the definitive characterizations that would have made Louisa May Alcott proud. I love this most beautiful work of cinematic art so much that I never tire of watching it. It is a treat for the eyes, the heart and the soul and at the end when the camera pans back to view the sky festooned with a glorious rainbow your emotions leap for joy that a movie can so utterly express the simple elegance of human decency and goodness.
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- Kleine tapfere Jo
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- Gross US & Canada
- $7,466,500
- Gross worldwide
- $12,905,600
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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