With our closing up of Little Women and its three film adaptations, I was trying to figure out which actress best portrayed the beloved firecracker. Definitely not 1949’s June Allyson. She’s chatty, annoying, and her cheesy smile hurts me. In my opinion Winona Ryder is a better contender, though she seems fragile and nervous for the most part. She can definitely carry the role of the tortured artist, and she conveys Jo’s fitfulness for change and growth. Katharine Hepburn would have to be the winner though. Physically she is more like Alcott’s Jo March, and she carries the headstrong spirit better than Ryder. My only complaint is that Hepburn’s “Christopher Columbus!” is really exaggerated and made me wince after the 5th time I heard it. But it’s forgivable since she best represented the Jo that readers know and love.
While I was thinking about the character of Jo March, something hit […]
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