Little Women (1950) Quotes with Sound Clips

Little Women (1950) Quotes with Sound Clips

Audio 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 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)

3 Alone and parted, far from joy and gladness, my senses fail, a burning fire devours me.

— Professor Bhaer (Robert Boone)

4 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)

5 But it seems that I was never intended to live very long. I never planned what I would do when I grew up like the rest of you did, because I could never bear the thought of leaving home.

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

6 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)

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

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

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 I have nothing to give you but my heart, which is full, and these hands, which are empty.

— Professor Bhaer (Robert Boone)

10 Oh, when are you going to stop your rude, romping ways? -Not till I'm old and stiff and need a crutch!

— Jo March (June Allyson), Meg March (Janet Leigh)

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