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	Little Women - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott published on September 30, 1868, concerning the lives and loves of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War.
		Most of the flaws are in check for a time after lessons are learned, but even as young women the girls must work out these flaws in order to become archetypical mothers, wives, sisters, and citizens.
		Saban Entertainment produced an English dubbed version (Tales of Little Women) which aired on HBO in the United States in 1988-89, and the series has also achieved immense popularity in Europe (Una per tutte, tutte per una in Italy, Les quatre filles du Docteur March in France).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_Women (1429 words)

	Louisa May Alcott and the Roles of a Lifetime: Chapter Four, Little Women
		Little Women (1868) teaches us not only what blancmange is good for, and what to do when pickled limes are all the rage, but also, and most importantly, what it means to be a little woman in a society that prizes certain very rigidly defined sorts of behavior.
		In her introduction to Little Women, Douglas emphatically declares, "Jo is Alcott herself, and the constrictions on Jo as a character and an author in the family journal form were Louisa's as a woman, a writer, an Alcott, a citizen of 'poky' Concord, and an American" (xvi).
		Jo's refusal to be a "little woman" is obvious in the beginning of the novel, and it is one of the things that attracts many of the novel's readers to her as a character.
	www.womenwriters.net /domesticgoddess/thesis4.htm (10239 words)

	Portrayal of Women in Iranian Cinema
		In discussing the place of women in those films, it is interesting to note that because of their limited audience, they were hardly in a position to exert much influence over society, and as such, they could be described as socially neutral.
		Little by little women who had taken part in political marches during the revolutionary months, raised their voices in protest: women who had endured war and economic pressure, had seen off their husbands, fathers and brothers to the war fronts and had suffered immensely as the heads of their families.
		Women’s protest against their unrealistic portrayal in cinema was shown in the form of films which they made themselves.
	www.iran-bulletin.org /art/CINEMA2.html (3732 words)

	Little Women
		Little Women is an 1868 autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott, concerning the lives and loves of four sisters (Jo, Beth, Meg and Amy) growing up during the American Civil War.
		It has been adapted as a film many times: in 1917, 1918, 1933, 1946, 1949, 1950, 1958, 1970, 1978, 1979 and 1994.
		The 1933 film Little Women is notable for its nomination for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/li/Little_Women.html (115 words)

	Louisa May Alcott and the Roles of a Lifetime: Conclusions: Public Perception of an Autobiography-- the 94 Film Version
		The film Marmee also argues that women should have the same rights as men to vote, hold property, and work outside the home, and she heals Beth with homeopathic medicine almost the minute she arrives back from Washington D.C. This last element is an interesting addition.
		As film critic Anne Hollander has pointed out, an analysis of the various film versions of the novel reveals that the values of the March girls can be manipulated to support the dominant social roles for women during the eras in which the films are produced.
		If a group of Little Women fans were to gather and discuss their favorite character, most would probably choose Jo-- she is the most vibrant character in the novel and her struggles with self-identity and expectations is one most teenage girls can identify with.
	www.womenwriters.net /domesticgoddess/thesis5.htm (3755 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Little Women
		In Little Women, she manages to wear balloon skirts and petticoats, dress up like an idiot in a play her character has written, address her mother as "Marmee," be courted by the eager young man next door—all without seeming quaint and outdated in the least.
		The film's music by Max Steiner can be enjoyed quite well although it's a score that's more in the realm of a pleasing and appropriate accompaniment to the film than one that takes on a life and magic of its own.
		On-screen credits on films of the 1930s and 1940s are commonly rather short compared to what we see nowadays, but you'll learn more from the on-screen credits of Little Women than you will from the listing of cast and crew that WB includes as one of the disc's special features.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/littlewomen1933.php (1460 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Comment - Little Women (1933): Adapting to the Screen a Classic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Little Women was shot entirely on the RKO lot, including the winter scenes which required the use of artificial snow.
		This struck a chord among the viewers as Little Women was released during the height of the Depression.
		Under Cukor's delicate direction Little Women is a powerful depiction of lost innocence--a film about the making of a sensitive writer, the maturation of a girl who transcends her milieu while retaining its heritage.
	emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=2682 (1775 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Little Women (1933)
		Hepburn is obviously the centerpiece of the film as the boyish Jo March, and deservedly so: she brings a great deal of energy and enthusiasm to the role and brightens every scene that she's in.
		The film is clearly playing up the more inspirational and heart-warming elements of the novel, such as the sisters' acts of kindness and generosity to others.
		Little Women is fascinating as a glimpse into another time; both the historical setting in the 1860s and the time that the film was made in the 1930s are distant enough to feel like different cultures.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=3014 (923 words)

	Classic Coming Attractions by Barrie Maxwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The film was the culmination of a dream by Cooper (and his close friend Ernest Schoedsack who co-directed the film) and also the vindication of his faith in the concept when most of the Hollywood establishment refused to back his idea.
		With film passing through a camera at 24 frames per second, one can appreciate how long it would take to get even one minute of completed filming and the degree of exactness and patience in working that was required.
		The film is brought in at under 70 minutes and has a distinct quickie B flavour to it.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /articles/barriemaxwell/maxwell120105.html (3112 words)

	Little Women (review) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		LITTLE WOMEN is quite possibly the one book written post-Shakespeare that has the most number of film adaptations to its credit.
		I hate to make a snap judgement, having not seen any more versions of Little Women than the 1994 one, but I believe that this version, made by RKO studios and starring a delightful Katharine Hepburn as Jo March, has every right to be considered the definitive film version of the Alcott novel.
		It is perhaps for LITTLE WOMEN as much as for MORNING GLORY (released in the same year) that Hepburn won her first Oscar in 1933.
	www.katharinehepburn.net /reviews/littlewomen.htm (841 words)

	Compilation: Max Steiner The RKO Years 1929-1936: Max Steiner: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews Fall 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The film, based on a Fannie Hurst tear-jerking novel of love, sacrifice, struggle and eventual success against an ethnic background, related the tale of a brilliant Jewish doctor who abandons his ghetto clinic for a more lucrative practice uptown before he rediscovers his roots.
		The waltz is treated to show her quiet determination and the highlight of the score, the cue ‘Romeo and Juliet’, is richly, persuasively and sensitively scored as Eva plied with drink is persuaded to recite Shakespeare.
		Little Women’s Main Title beginning with harpsichord chords leading into a sweet, demure setting of the Josephine (played by Hepburn) theme soon gives way to the brashness of Civil War songs immediately stating time and locale.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2005/fall05/msrkoyrs.html (1667 words)

	1933 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ecstasy, a Czechoslovak film, shocks audiences when actress Hedy Lamarr is seen naked in the film.
		The Private Life of Henry VIII becomes the first British film to win an American Academy Award.
		February 23 - David Horsley, pioneer film executive
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1933_in_film (584 words)

	Little Women (1933) - Movie Review
		It speaks volumes about the quality of films in the early 1930s (when the Depression made sap look good) that Little Women was nominated for Best Picture and won Best Writing at the Academy Awards.
		While Little Women has always been a story about young ladies pulling themselves up without a father in their lives, this adaptation minimizes their liberation considerably.
		The third of nine adaptations of the film to date, the 1933 Little Women is nonetheless one of the better versions of the book, and it can be forgiven a lot due to its age and era.
	excite.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/littlewomen1933 (330 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Little Women" A film review by Linda Lopez McAlister on "The Women's Show" WMNF-FM (88.5), Tampa, FL January 7, 1995 The third Hollywood film version of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel "Little Women" was released around the country on Christmas Day.
		This sturdy version of the novel, put together by a team of talented youngish women filmmakers including Australian director Gillian Armstrong, screenwriter Robin Swicord, and producer Denise Di Novi, is one that is constructed to appeal to women of their generation.
		For the WMNF Women's Show this is Linda Lopez McAlister on Women and Film.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/FilmReviews/little-women-mcalister (330 words)

	Little Women (1933)
		This of course means that they are a family of women, led by their matriarch, Marmee (Spring Byington).
		And Jo (Katharine Hepburn in one of her best performances), the story’s true protagonist, is defined as a character more by her unusual career aspiration to be a professional writer than by whom she does or doesn’t end up marrying.
		Thus, while Little Women is far from hostile to its male characters, it has a positive feminine character and defines its protagonists not by relationships with men but by moral choices, experiences, and relationships with one another, their mother, and their community.
	www.decentfilms.com /sections/reviews/1782 (375 words)

	Little Women [1933]
		"Little Women" (1933) is the first film to be based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of four young girls and their maturing in an age of affectation and Victorian sensibilities.
		That said, overall then, the film is faithful to Alcott and a veritable lush and lovely cinematic experience in the vein of golden Hollywood filmmaking.
		Contrast and fine details are as they should be and film grain, with minor exceptions, is kept in check.
	www.mediascreen.com /l/littlewomen1.htm (395 words)

	MMI Review: Little Women (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The title alone suggests demureness and docility, two characteristics which were absolutely antithetical to its author, Louisa May Alcott, a strong woman of the nineteenth century who was determined to make her living, not as a servant or as a seamstress, but as a writer.
		It has been reported that the author found "Little Women" a bore to write and that the values in the book belong to her educator father and not to herself, but she did achieve her dream of making her living as a writer.
		In the latest version of "Little Women", dedicated to the memory of Polly Klaas, Winona Ryder makes a delightful Jo March for 90's audiences & she is well supported by Gabriel Byrne in one of his best performances as Professor Bhaer.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/littlewomen94.html (505 words)

	King Kong (1933)
		Co-producers and directors Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack (both real-life adventurers and film documentarians) conceived of the low-budget story of a beautiful, plucky blonde woman (Fay Wray) and a frightening, gigantic, 50 foot ape-monster as a metaphoric re-telling of the archetypal Beauty and the Beast fable.
		The film was shot during the spring and summer of 1932 in the confines of the studio.
		During the voyage, Ann prepares to practice and rehearse a scene for the film director on the deck, "to see which side of my face looks best and all that." Driscoll really believes her life is in jeopardy and is feeling protective of her safety: "This is no place for a girl," he tells her.
	www.filmsite.org /kingk.html (1635 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
		Using the term feminist in this day and age is surely grounds for some kind of punishment, but Little Women is certainly a feminist text in the best sense of the word: Women are depicted as individuals, striving to make lives for themselves that best express their talents and desires.
		Remaking this film is not just a question of spinning an updated tale or overhauling outdated ideas; Little Women is a story treasured by many, and George Cukor's 1933 version starring Katharine Hepburn as Jo is probably the most beloved of the four film versions already in existence.
		As for Ryder's Jo, her performance in the early part of the film is a bit too wacky.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:142828 (641 words)

	The Hollywood Thirties: Part 6: The Players
		Greta Garbo- The Garbo mystique born in silent films continued into the 30s although she only made 13 films in the decade.
		During this decade he was starring in a body of lower budget films and preparing for the great career to follow.
		Her films blended humor and sexual innuendo and catapulted her to the top of the box office.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Lot/4344/stage13l.html (1262 words)

	Little Women and Wicked Women: Louisa May Alcott Etexts
		Though the bulk of her fame rests squarely on Little Women, her tenderly crafted autobiographical novel about the unforgettable domestic quartet of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, Louisa May Alcott wrote in several other genres, including thrillers and dark tales of passion, romance, and high adventure.
		In addition to the so-called Little Women series, a selection of fables, a novel based on her Civil War nursing experience, and reminiscences of her childhood, you will also find such startling stories as "Pauline's Passion and Punishment," "Behind a Mask," and "Perilous Play," often written pseudonymously and featuring a bevy of decidedly nondocile heroines.
		Little Women, 1933 (film script for the RKO adaptation starring Katharine Hepburn, screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Vicor Heerman)
	www.elliemik.com /alcottetexts.html (1100 words)

	Title: "Little Women" - Topics: Literature/U.S.; U.S./1860 - 1865 & Massachusetts
		to "Little Women" will help teachers and parents introduce children to the very mild effects of the Civil War on the Union home front, the coming of age of four sisters, the ravages of scarlet fever in the days before antibiotics, and the difficulties of a female writer in the nineteenth century.
		TEACHERS: A film can be an alternative educational experience and highlight points covered by the curriculum.
		for 270 films which can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents as study guides.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/little-women.html (461 words)

	Little Women (1933) Movie Overview ~ Cast and Crew, Trailer, Pictures, Synopsis, Release Date - RopeofSilicon.com
		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).
		This Little Women was a huge box-office hit, and broke all the records to that time.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /movies.php?id=1820 (255 words)

	Classic Coming Attractions by Barrie Maxwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Most of these films have never developed any enduring reputation as a Christmas film, but a few have (mainly because they were major productions or were vehicles by well-loved and respected stars) and we often see them revived at this time of year.
		The problem with this film is that the characters that Matthau portrays are either sleaze-balls or jerks who need a good kick in the ass.
		I guess Duncan and Roberts may be okay in the film, but it's hard to notice because their efforts are obscured by a performance by Tod Susman that has to be seen to be believed for its utter inanity and annoyance.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /articles/barriemaxwell/maxwell122303.html (4822 words)

	Amazon.ca: Little Women (1933): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The film focuses on the personal interactions family members have with each other, as well as with their friends and neighbors, in order to create a portrait of an idealized, loving family held together during trying times.
		The film primarily revolves around the March sisters, with the focus on independent and headstrong Jo, an aspiring writer, as well as a tomboy and second oldest of the four sisters.
		Katherine Hepburn brings the Little Women heroine Jo March alive in a portrayal that truly does justice to the Jo that Louisa May Alcott wrote.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NRO2 (1062 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
		There had been a silent version, and there would be several more, but the 1933 film is considered by most critics to be the best, and the most faithful to the book.
		Little Women was a hit, out-grossing most of the films in release at the time.
		Two jazz musicians flee from Chicago mobsters and disguise themselves as women in an all-girl band traveling to Florida in Billy Wilder's classic 1959 comedy starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe.
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article/?cid=21382 (451 words)

	Emanuel Levy : Comment - Little Women (1933): Cukor on Hepburn
		By this film, with an Oscar to her credit, Hepburn had become an accomplished actress.
		There was a sound strike, while they were filming the scene in which Beth was dying for the nth time, with Hepburn weeping at her bedside.
		A humorous incident, which occurred during Little Women, taught Cukor the need to be discriminating in his choice of consultants.
	emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=2683 (1121 words)

	Review: Little Women (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This third, and most recent, film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic 1868 novel about family and crossing the barrier between girlhood and womanhood, is a treatment for today's audiences.
		This tale of four independent sisters of differing temperaments is undeniably melodramatic, but it's very good melodrama, with an accumulation of vitality and charm that elevates the movie to an unexpectedly high level.
		Nevertheless, the tale is engrossing enough, and the film put together with such obvious affection, that it's not hard to dismiss those things as necessary elements of a beloved period piece.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/l/little_women.html (602 words)

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