LeRoy’s film, like Cukor’s 1933 version, boasts a really talented ensemble- perhaps even more so. June Allyson is in lead, but she’s supported by Mary Astor, Elizabeth Taylor (at 17), Janet Leigh, C. Aubrey Smith, Margaret O’Brien, Peter Lawford
MGM- technicolor – rich maroons and reds—– Academy Award winner for best art direction/ I love the hand-stitched homey and warm opening credits as well
MGM- technicolor – Academy Award winner for best art direction
Again- this is sacred text—kinship and sisterhood– moving and intelligent. I’ve never really realized it but this is a portrait of an artist – To Laurie she says “You can’t stand my scribbling and I can’t get along without it”
I love Elizabeth Taylor in this role here. She’s blonde (which I’m not sure I’ve seen in any other film—she’s is THE brunette), funny, bratty, pops off the screen even surrounded by others—just a single year later she’s in Father of the Bride (1950) and two years later she’s in A Place in the Sun – a major star
I love Elizabeth Taylor in this role here. She’s blonde (which I’m not sure I’ve seen in any other film—she’s is THE brunette), funny, bratty, pops off the screen even surrounded by others—just a single year later she’s in Father of the Bride (1950) and two years later she’s in A Place in the Sun – a major star
June Allyson is no Katharine Hepburn as Jo but she’s rock solid here as well. She looks like Judy Garland almost
The four sisters are uniformly excellent and the best scenes in the film are spread among them more evenly than the 1933 version which is a the Katharine Hepburn show
C. Aubrey Smith’s last film and he’s excellent here- he gets one of the film’s tear-jerking and best scenes as Margaret O’Brien comes to thank him for the piano
C. Aubrey Smith’s last film and he’s excellent here- he gets one of the film’s tear-jerking and best scenes as Margaret O’Brien comes to thank him for the piano
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