Showing posts with label Little Women (1933). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Little Women (1933). Show all posts

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

The First Non-Silent Cinematic Take On Little Women Soars In Its Most Quiet Moments


Louisa May Alcott’s book Little Women proved to be such an enduring literary phenomenon once it was published at the end of the 1860s that it was inevitable the artform of cinema, as it got underway in the dawn of the 20th century, would attempt to tackle it. Hollywood loved to make movies out of beloved source material as much in 1919 as they do in 2019! Two silent movie takes on the material had emerged before the 1920s had even finished but the most expansive adaptation of Little Women yet would come about in 1933 courtesy of director George Cukor, who assembled a stellar cast to bring this text to life.