A Year With Kate: Little Women (1933)
Episode 4 of 52 Anne Marie is screening all of Katharine Hepburn's films in chronological order.
In which we remember childhood fondly.
When I was 11, our school librarian told me that if you love a book enough, you have its first line burned into your brain. Being a very literal child, I immediately selected my favorite book, Little Women, and studiously memorized the first line:
“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.”
Later—much later than I’m comfortably willing to admit—I realized that Mrs. Krall actually meant that when you love a story, you revisit it so often that it stays with you. I think we can all agree this extends to film as well. [more...]