LITTLE WOMEN 49

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• Release Year: 1949
• Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
• Plot: Meet Jo, Beth, Amy and Meg. They're the March sisters, the Little Women of Mervyn LeRoy's Academy Award-winning Technicolor version of the cherished Louisa May Alcott novel.; ; Set during the Civil War, it chronicles the Marches' lives and loves, underscoring the era's expectations about a woman's place in the world. Golden-tressed Elizabeth Taylor portrays pretentious Amy, Janet Leigh is earnest Meg and Margaret O'Brien is dear, tragedy-stricken Beth. June Allyson plays spunky Jo, resolved to be a writer, but unaware that the elusive muse she seeks is the life she shares with her sisters and mother (Mary Astor). A movie of 'admirable beauty' (New York Post) and irresistible warmth, Little Women looms large.
• Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Rossano Brazzi, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, C. Aubrey Smith, Elizabeth Patterson, Leon Ames, Harry Davenport, Richard Wyler, Connie Gilchrist, Ellen Corby, Dorothy Abbott, Marci Booth, Harlan Briggs, Rosalee Calvert, Frank Darien, Lisa Golm, Eloise Hardt, June Hedin, Patsy Henry, Olin Howland, Scotty Hugenberg, Clare Jane Karnback, Diane Nance, Ralph Peters, Melinda Plowman, Norman Rainey, Isabel Randolph, Marilyn Thorpe, María Torres, Stuart Torres, Arthur Walsh, Will Wright, Mervyn LeRoy
• Director: Mervyn LeRoy
• Runtime: 2:02
• Company: Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Media Format: Movie