Ok. Let’s reveal another interesting fact about me to open this post. My parents named me after Katharine Hepburn. Except they didn’t like how she spelled her name. So they changed the second a to an e. So I’m really not named after Katharine Hepburn. Plus I’ve never seen her in a movie in my life. And let me just tell you, after watching this 1933 version of Little Women, I really do not want to be associated with her. I’m sure she’s probably done some really good movies (unless my parents were just crazy when they named me) but she sucked in this one (In my own opinionated and well chosen words.) I hated how unfeminine and tomboyish she was. I know Jo is supposed to be tomboyish, but Hepburn takes it to the extreme. Very extreme. The book Jo loved to do boy things and talk to boys, but I don’t recall her screaming a lot and acting totally uncivilized. But according to others, her performance was pretty good. The Wikipedia page for the movie says that Hepburn won the 1934 Golden Medal for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and also established her roles as strong characters in all other movies she was in.
I’m not a tomboy. I hope I didn’t let my parents down.