Little Women (1950) Quotes with Sound Clips

Little Women vintage book coverAudio quotes from the old-time radio play "Little Women", based on Louisa May Alcott's novel, broadcast March 13, 1950 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: June Allyson (Jo March), Janet Leigh (Meg March), Margaret O’Brien (Beth March)

4 more actors, Rhoda Williams (Amy March), Peter Lawford (Laurie), Betty Lou Gerson (Marmee March), Robert Boone (Professor Bhaer)

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1 Why is she crying? -Because she loves us. And love and tears live very close together. Come on now.

Beth March (Brien), Meg March (Janet Leigh), (Margaret O’Brien)

2 You see, I'm a writer, and so I know. You have none of the symptoms. Your appetite's fine, you sleep like a log, and you don't mope in corners. Therefore you're not in love. Therefore do not go and marry that man.

Jo March (June Allyson)

3 Christopher Columbus! What a breakfast! Look! Kidney pie and sausage! Popovers and... and coffee! And everything!

Jo March (June Allyson), Amy March (Rhoda Williams)

4 I've always wanted to go to Europe. Oh, not for the baths, of course. Not at all. But for my writing... It's so good for writers.

Jo March (June Allyson)

5 The words are by a famous writer, Goethe. I will try to say them for you in English. Let's see now. 'Only who knows what longing is can know what I suffer'.

Professor Bhaer (Robert Boone)

6 You've always reminded me of a sea gull. Strong and wild, fond of the wind and storm, and dreaming of flying out to sea.

Beth March (Brien), (Margaret O’Brien)

7 Just look! Just look at that piano over there. Oh, isn't it perfectly absolute? -Why, it's bigger than our kitchen.

Beth March (Brien), Amy March (Rhoda Williams), (Margaret O’Brien)

8 And give my girls my love and a kiss. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times.

Marmee March (Betty Lou Gerson)

9 But people are starving everywhere, every day. Well, if you're going to let that worry you, you'll never eat at all.

Meg March (Janet Leigh)

10 How are you getting along with your grandfather? -Oh, fine, fine. Once I got used to him. Isn't he a holy terror?

Jo March (June Allyson), Laurie (Peter Lawford)

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