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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790745893
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790745895
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: November 06, 2001
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 06, 2001
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 8884
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 1933
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Louisa May Alcott's beloved story is one of the most-read novels ever written. It has also proved popular film and telefilm fodder (at least six versions plus a TV series). In addition, Little Women is one of those rare literary projects that can truly be done well on screen. This, the 1933 version, chronicles the lives and loves of sisters Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth (played, respectively, by Katharine Hepburn, Frances Dee, Joan Bennett, and Jean Parker). It's a superior rendering to the amiable, perky 1949 version with June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien, and Peter Lawford, and comparable to the beautiful, feminist Gillian Armstrong 1994 take. Douglass Montgomery's Laurie isn't nearly as dreamy as Christian Bale's (1994), but the lack of chemistry between him and Hepburn's Jo is perfect for the story, in which Jo loves him like a brother. Jo's real love she offers up to perhaps the finest Professor Bhaer (Paul Lukas). Character actress Edna May Oliver is at her indignant best as Aunt March. Director George Cukor's vision is elegant, warm, and as true to the original source material as 117 minutes allows. This Little Women was a huge box-office hit, and broke all the records to that time. --N.F. Mendoza
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Rating: - Some Comparisons
The most interesting thing about the three film versions of "Little Women" is comparing them to each other or comparing each of them to Alcott's book.
What makes them so difficult to choose between is that the casting of the four title characters is the critical element, and each film featured at least one actress whose performance was clearly superior to her character's portrayal in the other two films.
This all star cast would include Jean Parker (Beth) in the 1933 version, ... Read More
Rating:  - Good for it's time, but the acting just doesn't hold up.
I just borrowed this one from the library. For the most part it is a very faithful adaptation of the beloved novel (which I finished reading two days before viewing this version). Unfortunately, some parts are too faithful - like the first fifteen or twenty minutes. This part is almost verbatim from the book and was soooooo slow! I was worried that the entire movie would be this way and be six hours long. Thank goodness the screenwriters began condensing after this long opening sequence.
The actresses ... Read More
Rating:  - Little Women (1933) - still young and beautiful
Little Women (1933), directed by George Cukor story of March family, four beautiful loving sisters and their Marmee, is an early adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's beloved 1860s classic and certainly one of the best. This is the movie that I believe should be universally loved and praised because it is a cinematic triumph. Everything is perfect in it. The clothes, the hairdos, the sets, cinematography, the musical score by Max Steiner and the brilliant script that brings to life the timeless story -together they ... Read More
Rating:  - Melodramatic, slow, bad acting... but a beautiful Hepburn
A couple of old friend were practically slobbering over this version of Little Women, so I finally decided to watch it. I was really taken aback. People here on Amazon really liked Kate as Jo, and they're entitled to their opinions, but she looked like she was trying too hard. Some of her facial expressions look glued on.
The Beth in this version looked way older than she should have been, and neither the actress's face nor voice expressed the personality she was supposed to portray. Elizabeth Taylor's ... Read More
Rating: - Marvelous classic!
This is a great classic about the March family during the Civil War!
After winning an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1933's "Morning Glory," twenty-five year-old Katharine Hepburn went on to play Jo in this marvelous classic. Little Women re-teamed Katharine Hepburn with director George Cukor whom she would go on to make many more movies with. He said Katharine Hepburn was "born to play Jo." She was incredible (out of all the versions, she is my favorite Jo)! I didn't care for the Laurie in this version as much ... Read More
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