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(out of 5)
Considered by some to be the best film version of Louisa May Alcott’s story, this George Cukor-directed family weepie has Katharine Hepburn playing everyone’s favourite teen writer Jo March, who charms her sisters with her theatrical pastimes and disgraces them with her boyish habits. The rest of the cast is strong, but I grew up watching June Allyson’s version and always enjoyed it more, and think now that Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 version with Winona Ryder is actually the best one.
RKO Radio Pictures
USA, 1933
Directed by George Cukor
Screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman, based on the book by Louisa May Alcott
Cinematography by Henry W. Gerrard
Produced by Merian C. Cooper
Music by Max Steiner
Production Design by Van Nest Polglase
Costume Design by Walter Plunkett
Film Editing by Jack Kitchin
Academy Award
Best Writing (Adaptation) (Victor Heerman, Sarah Y. Mason)
Nominations
Best Directing (George Cukor)
Outstanding Production (RKO Radio)
