Little Women (1918 film)

Little Women
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Directed by Harley Knoles
Screenplay by Anne Maxwell
Based on
Little Women
1868 novel
by
Produced by William A. Brady
G. B. Samuelson
Starring Isabel Lamon
Dorothy Bernard
Lillian Hall
Florence Flinn
Henry Hull
Conrad Nagel
Cinematography René Guissart
Production
company
William A. Brady Picture Plays
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • November 10, 1918
Running time
 60 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Little Women is a lost 1918 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and written by Anne Maxwell based upon the 1868-69 two-volume novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. The film stars Isabel Lamon, Dorothy Bernard, Lillian Hall, Florence Flinn, and Conrad Nagel. The film was released on November 10, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.

Production and filming

Producer William A. Brady was able to persuade the Alcott estate to allow Little Women to be adapted for stage and film. Brady first produced a stage play of the novel, which ran at the Playhouse Theatre in New York City for 18 months before touring the country. Director Harley Knoles filmed scenes inside of Louisa May Alcott's house in Concord.

Plot

Jo March, her parents, and sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in Concord, Massachusetts. Mr. March goes to Washington, D.C. to work, and becomes seriously ill. In order to raise money for Mrs. March to travel and be with her husband Jo sells her hair. Mr. and Mrs. March are able to return home. Jo wants to be an author, and begins to write the story of her own family, including Meg falling in love with neighbor Laurie's tutor John Brooke, Beth's illness and death, and Amy's marriage to Jo's best friend Laurie.

Cast

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