What is Little Women (1933 movie)?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox movie | name = Little Women | image = Katharine Hepburn in Little Women trailer.jpg | caption = [[Katharine Hepburn]] as Jo from the movie trailer | director = [[George Cukor]] | producer = Merian C. Cooper | writer = Victor Heerman<br>Sarah Y. Mason<br>Based on the novel by [[Louisa May Alcott]] | starring = [[Katharine Hepburn]]<br>[[Joan Bennett]]<br>Jean Parker<br>Frances Dee | music = Max Steiner | cinematography = Henry W. Gerrard | editing = Jack Kitchin | distributor = RKO Radio Pictures | country = United States | released = {{Film date|1933|11|16}} | runtime = 117 minutes | language = English | budget = $1 million }} '''''Little Women''''' is a 1933 black and white [[United States|American]] RKO movie directed by [[George Cukor]]. The movie was based on a [[Little Women|book of the same name]] by [[Louisa May Alcott]]. The movie stars [[Katharine Hepburn]] as Jo, Joan Bennett as Amy, Jean Parker as Beth, Frances Dee as Meg, Edna May Oliver as Aunt March, Spring Byington as Marmee, Paul Lukas as Professor Bhaer, Henry Stephenson as Mr. Laurence, and Douglass Montgomery as the boy-next-door Laurie. The movie is about the lives of four sisters in a nineteenth century Massachusetts village during the [[American Civil War]]. The movie was a success and was nominated for (but lost) the Best Picture [[Academy Award]]. == Notes about the production == The movie's budget was $1 million. Four thousand people worked on the movie for a year. A lot of research was done to make all the 3,000 costumes and props look like they came from the Civil War period. The set decorator modeled the inside of the March home after Louisa May Alcott's Massachusetts house.<ref name=TurnerClassicMovies/> The movie opened on November 16, 1933 at [[Radio City Music Hall]]. It broke attendance records there and earned over $100,000 during its first week of showings.<ref name=TurnerClassicMovies/> Louise Cl