Little brave Jo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Little brave Jo |
| Original title | Little Women |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mervyn LeRoy |
| script |
Victor Heerman , Sarah Y. Mason , Andrew Solt , Sally Benson |
| production | Mervyn LeRoy |
| music | Adolph German |
| camera |
Robert H. Planck , Charles Schoenbaum |
| cut | Ralph E. Winters |
| occupation | |
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Little brave Jo (Original title: Little Women ) is an American film by director Mervyn LeRoy from 1949. The film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with great effort is based on the 1868 novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott .
action
The small town of Concord , Massachusetts at the time of the Civil War . While the father of the family, Mr. March, is fighting for the Union Army, Mrs. March, who is affectionately known as "Marmee", is temporarily raising her four daughters alone. The previously wealthy pastor's family is increasingly slipping into financial difficulties.
The daughters are the spirited Jo, the practical Meg, the pretty and vain Amy and the shy Beth. The boyish Jo wins the friendship of Laurie, the grandson of a wealthy neighbor who woos her. Despite mutual sympathy, Jo rejects him, because in her quest for independence she devotes her life to writing and never wants to get married.
There is malicious speculation in the village that the poor March family is just looking for good matches for their daughters. Grandfather Laurence befriends Beth, who is allowed to play on his noble piano and who later gets it from him.
When the news arrives that the father has been wounded, Marmee makes his way to see him. After her departure, Beth falls seriously ill with scarlet fever , which makes the sisters realize how much they depend on their mother. A little later, however, the family is reunited and Beth is on the mend.
Meg now marries Laurie's teacher John Brooke, against the wishes of her sister Jo, who thinks she knows that Meg and John do not love each other. Laurie continues to be disappointed by Jo, who regularly turns him away, and leaves for Europe.
Sobered by the loss of both her boyfriend Laurie and her sister, Jo goes to New York to the Kirke family for further training and to establish herself as a writer. She meets the teacher Professor Bhaer, who not only introduces her to the city's cultural life, but also criticizes her as yet immature literary work and recommends that she write from the heart. Then comes the next disappointment: Her rich aunt March, who had promised Jo a trip to Europe, has instead started it together with Amy. Amy will later meet Laurie in Europe and marry him.
When Jo learns that Beth is seriously ill again, she travels home and takes care of the now dying. Out of mourning, she writes the novel Meine Beth , for which Professor Bhaer finds a publisher. In the end, Jo and the professor also become a couple.
production
Little Brave Jo is at least the seventh film adaptation of the youth novel Little Women, which is still extremely popular in the USA to this day . For RKO Pictures had George Cukor the book with Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett in the lead roles filmed . The film producer David O. Selznick planned a remake from the mid-1940s and began filming in September 1946. However, he broke it off because the post-production of Duell in der Sonne was still too busy and he didn't have time for another large-scale production. In his version, Jennifer Jones (Jo), Diana Lynn (Amy), Bambi Linn (Beth), Rhonda Fleming (Meg) and Anne Revere (Marmee) would have played the leading roles.
Selznick eventually sold the script and its intellectual property to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , where the experienced Mervyn LeRoy took over the direction and production of the film. The script deviates from the novel in many minor points: In the film, for example, it is not Amy who is the youngest of the sisters, but Beth. This change was made so that child actress Margaret O'Brien, known for her sad crying scenes, could be used in the dying scene. Parts of the script are based very closely on the Cukor film adaptation from 1933; the musical theme composed by Max Steiner was used again in this film and supplemented by additional music by Adolph Deutsch . Olin Howland played the role of the strict teacher Mr. Davis again , even in the same suit as 16 years earlier.
The shooting for the Technicolor and 35 mm film began on June 29, 1948 and ended in September 1948. The budget of the film was very high at over 2.7 million US dollars for the time. Actress June Allyson , 15-year-old Jo March at the beginning of the plot , was actually 31 years old when the film was set (in publicity, however, MGM often made her star up to ten years younger). During the shooting, she was so impressed by the O'Brien death scene that she cried and had to leave the film set early that day. She later named Little Women as one of her personal favorite films. Elizabeth Taylor , who was 16 years old and was the eleventh film for Little Women , appeared here with a blonde wig. Leon Ames as the father, Mary Astor as the mother and Margaret O'Brien as the daughter stood in front of the camera in the same formation as in the musical classic Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Little Women became the final film by British character actor Sir C. Aubrey Smith , who had died when the film was released at the age of 85.
The film premiered in the United States on March 10, 1949, before the Easter holidays, to celebrate Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 25th birthday. It ran for the first time in West Germany in 1951 and in Austria in 1952. In the USA alone, it made $ 3.6 million. The film was released on DVD in Germany in 2006.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 1951 in the MGM dubbing studio in Berlin.
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Jo March | June Allyson | Tilly Lauenstein |
| Theodore "Laurie" Laurence | Peter Lawford | Klaus Schwarzkopf |
| Amy March | Elizabeth Taylor | Erika Georgi |
| Meg March | Janet Leigh | Bettina Schön |
| Professor Bhaer | Rossano Brazzi | Axel Monjé |
| Marmee March | Mary Astor | Til Klokow |
| Grandfather Lawrence | Sir Charles Aubrey Smith | Otto Stoeckel |
| Father March | Leon Ames | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Mr. Davis, Amy's teacher | Olin Howland | Alfred Balthoff |
| Mr. Grace, shopkeeper | Will Wright | Herbert Weissbach |
Awards
The production design by Cedric Gibbons , Paul Groesse , Edwin B. Willis and Jack D. Moore won an Oscar in 1950. In addition, the cameramen Robert H. Planck and Charles Edgar Schoenbaum were nominated for an Oscar.
Reviews
Bosley Crowther showed little enthusiasm in the New York Times of March 11, 1949. Although the first half of the film was quite successful, director LeRoy had allowed excessive sentimentality in his film, which would cause a “perceptible degradation” towards the end, which even the beautiful technicolor could not cover up. Crowther praised most of the actors, but while June Allyson largely convinced Allyson as Jo , Katharine Hepburn was significantly better in the same role in the 1933 film . Time also found that the previous one with Hepburn was more ambitious, but this one with "simple efficiency" would also bring tears.
Leonard Maltin sees the film as a “polished remake”, which is suitably cast, and gives two and a half stars out of four. The Lexicon of International Films wrote that Little Brave Jo was “a cheerful, psychologically sound family film with a dash of sentimentality. An amiable description of the milieu, but not without length. " Cinema was rather critical, the film was a box-office hit at the time," but the content of this version of the much-filmed novel Little Women does not stick much. "
Web links
- Little Women in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Little Women with Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Anime series based on Little Brave Jo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for little brave Jo . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2005 (PDF; test number: 28 19V V / DVD).
- ↑ Little Women (1949). Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
- ^ Frank Miller: Little Women (1949). In: TCM. Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Little Women (1949). Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Little Women (1949). Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Little brave Jo. Retrieved February 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Movie Review - Metro Fails to Spare Pathos in 'Little Women' Remake Seen at Music Hall - NYTimes.com. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
- ^ The New Pictures, Mar. 14, 1949 . In: Time . March 14, 1949, ISSN 0040-781X ( time.com [accessed January 2, 2018]).
- ↑ Little Women. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved November 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Little brave Jo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 27, 2018 .
- ↑ CINEMA Online: Little Brave Jo . In: CINEMA Online . ( cinema.de [accessed on January 2, 2018]).