Fresh
The tender story, with its frank and unashamed assault on the emotions, still has its effective moments at times when the sentiment doesn't grow a little too thick.
Variety Staff, Variety
Little Women
THRILLS OF YOUNG LOVE!
1949 · 2h 1m · Approved
Drama, Family, Romance
Directed by
Mervyn LeRoy
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Little Women
Overview
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Director and cast
- Mervyn LeRoy Director
- 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 Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Rotten
If anything, it has hauled back much too briskly on the strings of the heart and has strained a few muscles in the process. Its consequent agony shows.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
A shade less ambitious than its 1933 predecessor (which starred Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett), it still jerks tears with easy efficiency.
TIME Magazine
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