It's finally time to journey back to Concord! In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we return to Louisa May Alcott's Little Women with a much more thorough look at the decades of adaptations of her classic story.

In this episode we discuss:

• Episode 7 of Adapt or Perish (which you should probably listen to before this episode).
• The 1933 movie, directed by George Cukor, written by David Hempstead, Victor Heerman, and Sarah Y. Mason, and starring Katharine Hepburn.
• The 1949 movie, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, written by Andrew Solt, Victor Heerman, and Sarah Y. Mason, and starring June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien, and Elizabeth Taylor.
• The 1950 two-part TV special, starring Nancy Marchand.
• The 1970 BBC miniseries, adapted by Denis Constanduros and Alistair Bell, and starring Angela Down, Jo Rowbottom, and Patrick Troughton.
• The 1978 NBC miniseries, directed by David Lowell Rich, written by Suzanne Clauser, and starring Susan Dey, Meredith Baxter Birney, Greer Garson, and William Shatner.
• The 1980 anime TV special, produced by Toei Animation.
• The 1994 movie, directed by Gillian Armstrong, written by Robin Swicord, and starring Winona Ryder, Claire Danes, Susan Sarandon, Christian Bale, and Gabriel Byrne.
• The 2017 Masterpiece miniseries, directed by Vanessa Caswill, written by Heidi Thomas, and starring Maya Hawke, Emily Watson, Michael Gambon, and Angela Lansbury.
• The 2018 modern-day movie, directed by Clare Niederpruem, written by Niederpruem and Kristi Shimek, and starring Sarah Davenport, Lucas Grabeel, and Lea Thompson.
• The 2019 movie, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, and starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern, Chris Cooper, and Meryl Streep.

Footnotes

• We were on another podcast! We were invited onto the Castle of Horror podcast to speak with host and author Jason Henderson as part of their "Castle Talk" interview series, and had a ton of fun. Listen to it on the web or on Apple Podcasts.

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