The three big-screen versions of Little Women make a great comparison. Each version (1933, 1949, and 1994) emphasizes different aspects of the text, through a prism of the concerns of those eras-for example, the 1994 version really heightens Marmee's feminism, whereas in the 1933 version, she's a conventional, "good mother" character. The different portrayals of Jo March-Hepburn, June Allyson, and Winona-are fascinating-again, they reflect the times in which the adaptations were made.
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