LITTLE WOMEN
1949

Meg, Josephine, Amy and Beth are the little women who, together with their mother, keep the home fires burning while their preacher father serves with the Union army during the Civil War. Meg, the eldest, is a second mother to the troupe while "Jo", the tomboy, takes on the role of man of the house. Beth, the frailest of the four, seeks comfort in gentle music, and Amy, the youngest, yearns for the good things in life. A simple tale of four young girls coming to womanhood.

Based on the book by Louisa May Alcott, this is her autobiographical account of life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s while their their father is away fighting in the civil war and of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

CAST
June Allyson ... Jo
Peter Lawford ... Laurie
Margaret O'Brien ... Beth
Elizabeth Taylor ... Amy
Janet Leigh ... Meg
Rossano Brazzi ... Professor  Bhaer
Mary Astor ... Marmee
Lucile Watson ... Aunt March
C. Aubrey Smith ... Mr. Laurence
Elizabeth Patterson ... Hannah
Leon Ames ... Mr. March
Harry Davenport ... Dr. Barnes
Richard Wyler ... John Brooke (as Richard Stapley)
Connie Gilchrist ... Mrs. Kirke
Ellen Corby ... Sophie

Director: Mervyn LeRoy

RUNNING TIME: 122 MIN