Director : Mervyn LeRoy
Release Date : 10 March 1949 (USA)
Genre : Drama, Family, Romance
Cast : (Complete credited cast) , June Allyson as Jo , Peter Lawford as Theodore Laurence ‘Laurie’ , Margaret O’Brien as Beth , Elizabeth Taylor as Amy , Janet Leigh as Meg , Rossano Brazzi as Professor Bhaer , Mary Astor as Marmee , Lucile Watson as Aunt March , C. Aubrey Smith as Mr. Laurence (as Sir C. Aubrey Smith) , Elizabeth Patterson as Hannah – March family maid , Leon Ames as Father March , Harry Davenport as Dr. Barnes , Richard Wyler as John Brooke (as Richard Stapley) , Connie Gilchrist as Mrs. Kirke – NY landlady , Ellen Corby as Sophie – Mrs Kirke’s maid
Plot : Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical think of her living and her three sisters inside Concord Mass inside the 1860s… more |
Run Time : 121 min
Country : USA
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Language : English
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Company : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Trivia : This version foremost was to engagement a David O. Selznick production. Filming taken off inside September 1946 save for David O. Selznick made wide awake our minds he couldn’t start a chief wave hence presently subsequent to the undertaking of filming Duel inside the Sun (1946) hence he sold the element also composition to MGM. The ilk for the cause that the David O. Selznick version included Jennifer Jones (Jo), Diana Lynn (Amy), Bambi Linn (Beth), Rhonda Fleming (Meg), John Dall (Laurie), Anne Revere (Marmee), Charles Coburn (Laurie’s grandfather), Philip Friend (Brooke) also Constance Collier (Aunt March). Only director Mervyn LeRoy also Elizabeth Patterson (Hannah) organized the transition to the MGM version. Costume experiment of the actors exist.
Goofs : Revealing mistakes: Laurie check with Jo how several lumps she desires inside her tea also she says three. You could picture it’s average sugar also Laurie set four spoons of sugar inside the tea.
Tag Lines : THRILLS OF YOUNG LOVE! (original print ad – all caps)
Plot Summary : Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical look on of her survival in addition to her three sisters inside Concord Mass inside the 1860s. With their father wrestling inside the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy in addition to Beth are conversant in their mommy – a exceptionally outspoken men as her time. The fairy-tale is of how the sisters grow up, reckon intimacy in addition to reckon their region inside the world.
Meg, Josephine, Amy in addition to Beth are the slight grown men who, along side their mother, hold the marital fires burning minute their preacher father serves as well as the Union army at miscelanneous pilot of the Civil War. Meg, the eldest, is a abet mommy to the troupe minute “Jo”, the tomboy, removes on the role of gentleman of the house. Amy yearns since the kickshaws inside life, in addition to Beth, the adolescent in addition to frailest of the four, strives hope inside pleasant music. A trouble-free story of four adolescent girls following to womanhood. This is a huge succinct but, I needed to quote that Beth is not the adolescent March aunt – Amy is. The calls is Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy.
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