Brother-in-Lawford

So the 1949 version of Little Women was awful. But, there are definitely some interesting choices to be discussed. For one, I am a fan of the casting choice for Laurie. I couldn’t help but notice some interesting parallels between Peter Lawford’s life and the life of his character Laurie. Peter Lawford was a member of the Rat Pack back in it’s hay day. The Rat Pack included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford. If you’re interested, HBO made a really awesome film entitled The Rat Pack starring Ray Liotta as the man himself (that’s Frankie if you don’t know). Anyways, back to Lawford. Frank started calling him Brother-in-Lawford because he married Patricia Kennedy and was therefore cool by association to the President! Obviously, Laurie is way cooler on his own than Lawford was but still if it weren’t for Jo, he would’ve been the weird neighbor that no one cared about. See what I’m saying?

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