Little Women (1949 film)
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Australian Theatrical Poster
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| 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 |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Release date
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March 10, 1949 |
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Running time
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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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