Little Women (1933)
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Movie Reviews of Little Women (1933)
Movie Review: Gave as Gift; Receipient Likes
Summary: 5 Stars
I gave this item as a gift to someone who requested it so I am not in a position to rate it, unfortunately. The recipient, however, likes it very much.Movie Review: Katharine Hepburn is Great
Summary: 5 Stars
one of my favorite movies. Katharine Hepburn is awsome. So is everyone eles. Lines from the actual book are included in the movie.Movie Review: Loved this!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was very excited to find this version of Little Women I loved it :)Movie Review: Required viewing for 1933 movie buffs
Summary: 5 Stars
Fantastic, could not be a "re-make" today, no one could do it better!Movie Review: Old-fashioned in the best way
Summary: 4 Stars
The one major gripe I have with this version (often considered "the definitive") of Louisa May Alcott's best-known book is that it isn't in color (which, by 1933, it could easily have been): I'd have loved to see the Victorian milieu and fashions in multitone. That much said, and allowing for the notion of women aged 24, 26, and 23 playing teens and sub-teens (Jean Parker, who plays Beth, was 18), it's a faithful and loving adaptation of the adventures of the four March girls (modelled on Alcott and her sisters), who, as the Civil War winds down, are enduring what they define as "poverty" (although they seem to me to be more middle-class, with a comfortable small house, a live-in cook, plenty to eat, a miniature piano, books, and pets) and trying to cope with the trials of growing up in Concord, N.H. There's quiet, dutiful, ladylike Meg (Frances Dee), shy "delicate" Beth, artistic, affected Amy (Joan Bennett), and, of course, the unforgettable, irresistible, one-of-a-kind Jo (Katharine Hepburn)--a high-spirited "tomboy" (though we always see her in skirts), given to slang, snowball-throwing, fence-jumping, and wide-eyed exclamations of "CHRIS-topher Co-LUM-bus!," frustrated with the limitations placed on females of the day, impatient with the need to earn money as a day-companion to her tyrannical and wealthy Aunt March (Edna May Oliver), inclined to chatter, yet warm-hearted, generous, and eager to travel and to become "a famous writer." (Jo could, in some sense, be described as a younger version of several of the characters Hepburn later played in screwball comedies and in her team-ups with Spencer Tracy.) When they befriend Laurie (Douglass Montgomery), the teenage boy who has come to live next door to them, and win over his crotchety grandfather (Henry Stephenson), their lives are changed forever, as Meg meets the man she will eventually marry, Laurie's tutor John Brooke (John Davis Lodge), and Jo's friendship with Laurie, which he longs to make more than that, eventually pushes her into going to New York, where she meets the German Prof. Bhaer (Paul Lukas), who calls her "my little friend" and encourages her to turn from the "blood-and-thunder" melodramas she's been successfully grinding out to something more "real" and "true"--something that will, of course, eventually be the book on which the movie is based. There's nothing very spectacular about the story or the people, and some viewers may even find it boring. But those who have read and loved the book--which probably includes 90% of the literate females on the planet--will revel in its trueness to the original and enjoy even the sappy sentimentality that occasionally takes place. (You may also want to see the sequel, Little Men (1935).)