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Little Women (1949 film)

Little Women
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Australian Theatrical Poster
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Produced by Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Andrew Solt,
Sarah Y. Mason
and Victor Heerman
Based on Little Women
1868 novel
by Louisa May Alcott
Starring June Allyson
Peter Lawford
Margaret O'Brien
Elizabeth Taylor
Janet Leigh
Rossano Brazzi
Mary Astor
Music by Adolph Deutsch
Max Steiner (musical score)
Cinematography Robert Planck, A.S.C.
Charles Schoenbaum, A.S.C.
Edited by Ralph E. Winters
Production
company
A Mervyn LeRoy Production
Produced by Loew's Incorporated
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
March 10, 1949
Running time
121 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $2,776,000
Box office $5,910,000

Little Women is a 1949 American feature film with script and music taken directly from the earlier 1933 Hepburn version. Based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name, it was filmed in Technicolor and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay was written by Sally Benson, Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason, and Andrew Solt. The original music score was composed by Adolph Deutsch and Max Steiner. The film also marked the American film debut of Italian actor Rossano Brazzi. Sir C. Aubrey Smith, whose acting career had spanned four decades, died in 1948; Little Women was his final film.

In the small town of Concord, Massachusetts, during the Civil War, the March sisters — Meg (Janet Leigh), Jo (June Allyson), Amy (Elizabeth Taylor), and Beth (Margaret O'Brien) — live with their mother in a state of genteel poverty, their father having lost the family's fortune to an unscrupulous businessman several years earlier. While Mr. March (Leon Ames) serves in the Union Army, Mrs. March (Mary Astor), affectionately referred to as "Marmee" by her daughters, holds the family together and teaches the girls the importance of giving to those less fortunate than themselves, especially during the upcoming Christmas season. Though the spoiled and vain Amy often bemoans the family's lack of material wealth and social status, Jo, an aspiring writer, keeps everyone entertained with her stories and plays, while the youngest March, the shy and sensitive Beth, accompanies Jo's productions on an out-of-tune piano.


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