000:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,000Downloaded From www.AllSubs.org100:02:53,681 --> 00:02:58,769My sisters and I remembered thatwinter as our childhood's coldest.200:02:58,936 --> 00:03:03,357A temporary poverty had hitour family some years before.300:03:03,524 --> 00:03:04,442The war made fueland lamp oil scarce.400:03:04,442 --> 00:03:07,028The war made fueland lamp oil scarce.500:03:07,194 --> 00:03:10,364But necessity isthe mother of invention.600:03:10,531 --> 00:03:17,621Somehow in that dark time, theMarch family created its own light.700:03:17,788 --> 00:03:20,207Marmee's home!800:03:31,051 --> 00:03:34,638We've expectorated you for hours!900:03:34,805 --> 00:03:39,477- "Expected", featherhead !- Marmee, you're frozen.1000:03:39,643 --> 00:03:46,734- So many people at Hope House!- You finished the bundles?1100:03:46,901 --> 00:03:51,906So many this year! We handed out . . .How's your cold?1200:03:52,072 --> 00:03:55,576We gave them outas fast as we made them.1300:03:55,743 --> 00:03:59,413Now, Miss Amy,what's in my pocket?1400:03:59,580 --> 00:04:02,583Father!1500:04:09,423 --> 00:04:13,093"Dearest family.I am well and safe."1600:04:13,260 --> 00:04:17,097"Our battalion is encampedon the Potomac."1700:04:18,349 --> 00:04:22,603"December is cold for us,so far from home."1800:04:22,770 --> 00:04:27,608"I think of my girls day and night.It comforts me."1900:04:27,775 --> 00:04:34,323"I pray your own hardships may notbe too great. Give them my love."2000:04:34,532 --> 00:04:40,371"Tell them I think of them by day,pray for them by night."2100:04:40,538 --> 00:04:43,958I'm a selfish girl.2200:04:46,710 --> 00:04:52,216It's Christmas Eve.Father wouldn't want us to be sad.2300:05:10,401 --> 00:05:15,447To bed, Miss Amy. Merry Christmas.2400:05:18,867 --> 00:05:22,496Merry Christmas.2500:05:26,083 --> 00:05:30,170- Merry Christmas.- I love you.2600:05:32,923 --> 00:05:38,345- My Jo . . . Merry Christmas.- Merry Christmas, Marmee.2700:05:41,432 --> 00:05:45,019- Don't sit up too late.- I won't.2800:06:06,874 --> 00:06:09,209At night, my mind came alive -2900:06:09,376 --> 00:06:14,381- with voices and friendsas dear to me as my real ones.3000:06:14,548 --> 00:06:20,637I gave myself up to it,longing for transformation.3100:06:24,058 --> 00:06:30,147What miraculous food ! Isn't thisjust like the old days, Hannah?3200:06:32,983 --> 00:06:38,989- We should just look at it!- Jo, come down.3300:06:46,914 --> 00:06:51,585I'm awake!Horrible piano . . .3400:06:51,752 --> 00:06:58,509- Hannah's made a Christmas miracle.- Is that sausage?3500:06:58,675 --> 00:07:01,678Wait!3600:07:01,845 --> 00:07:08,018Butter! Isn't butter divinity?God, thank you for this breakfast.3700:07:08,185 --> 00:07:13,607Fetch Marmee. She went out at dawnto see some Germans.3800:07:13,774 --> 00:07:19,530"Hummel," the boy said.No English. His dad's gone.3900:07:19,696 --> 00:07:23,283Six children, and another coming.4000:07:23,450 --> 00:07:29,873May as well take them firewood,they haven't any. Or breakfast.4100:07:30,040 --> 00:07:34,628We could send the Hummelsour bread.4200:07:35,879 --> 00:07:42,135And the butter, too.It's not much use without bread.4300:07:57,901 --> 00:08:02,656- Wonderful snow!- Wouldn't you like to roll in it?4400:08:02,823 --> 00:08:06,994Once one of our finest families.4500:08:12,416 --> 00:08:18,505- Lovely weather for a picnic.- Come on, Theodore. We'll be late.4600:08:23,093 --> 00:08:27,931Jo, let them speak first.What Will they think of us?4700:08:28,098 --> 00:08:31,268Don't look back!4800:09:02,674 --> 00:09:06,636"Knights and ladies,monks and flowergirls, -4900:09:06,803 --> 00:09:10,265- all mingled in the dance."5000:09:10,390 --> 00:09:13,894"Pauline cried outas the groom's mask fell."5100:09:14,019 --> 00:09:20,233"It was not her lover Ferdinand,but his sworn enemy Count Antonio."5200:09:21,818 --> 00:09:26,239"Revenge is mine," quoth he.5300:09:29,409 --> 00:09:35,916- "Continued in the next edition."- Excellent, Mr. Snodgrass!5400:09:38,752 --> 00:09:44,216- I love forbidden marriages!- You ought to publish it, Jo.5500:09:44,341 --> 00:09:47,344What's wrong with our newspaper,Mr. Tupman?5600:09:50,847 --> 00:09:54,184"One periwink . . . Advertisement."5700:09:54,351 --> 00:10:01,233"One periwinkle sash has beenabscondated from the wash line."5800:10:01,358 --> 00:10:06,947"A gentleman desires any reportsleading to its recovery."5900:10:10,158 --> 00:10:12,994Gentlemen of the press:Hear, hear!6000:10:13,203 --> 00:10:18,333"I call your attention toMr. Tupman's History of the Squash."6100:10:18,542 --> 00:10:22,879- This is a recipe, Beth !- I never know what to write.6200:10:23,046 --> 00:10:28,134The first rule of writing is,never write what you know.6300:10:28,301 --> 00:10:31,054What do you think of the boy?6400:10:31,221 --> 00:10:35,475Is he a captive like Smeein "Nicholas Nickleby"?6500:10:35,642 --> 00:10:38,979He looks lonely.6600:10:39,145 --> 00:10:45,986Maybe he has a secret.A tragic, European secret.6700:10:46,194 --> 00:10:49,739He was reared in Italyamong artists and vagrants.6800:10:49,906 --> 00:10:54,411He has a noble brow. If I was a boy,I'd like to look like that.6900:10:54,578 --> 00:11:00,041Imagine giving up Italy to comeand live with that awful old man.7000:11:00,250 --> 00:11:03,795I'd be terrified to live with him.7100:11:03,920 --> 00:11:08,592I'd like to live insuch a fine house with nice things.7200:11:09,718 --> 00:11:13,680It doesn't seem like Christmaswithout presents.7300:11:13,847 --> 00:11:17,350I'm desperate for drawing pencils.7400:11:17,517 --> 00:11:22,355I wish I didn't have to workfor Great-Aunt March.7500:11:22,522 --> 00:11:25,191What's your Christmas wish, Beth?7600:11:25,358 --> 00:11:30,864I'd like the war to end,so Father can come home.7700:11:31,031 --> 00:11:36,369- Sweet Beth ! We all want that.- They have a beautiful piano.7800:11:36,536 --> 00:11:40,290When I'm a writer,I'll buy you the best piano ever.7900:11:40,457 --> 00:11:46,796Or else you can play on mine. WhenI marry, I'll be disgustingly rich.8000:11:46,963 --> 00:11:51,301What if the man you loveis poor but good, like Father?8100:11:51,468 --> 00:11:58,475It's not like being stuck with adreadful nose. One can choose.8200:11:58,641 --> 00:12:03,730I wouldn't marry for money.What if his business goes bust?8300:12:03,897 --> 00:12:11,738The Eagle pays five dollars a story.I have ten in my head right now.8400:12:11,905 --> 00:12:15,575Gentlemen !I dislike all this money talk.8500:12:15,742 --> 00:12:19,579If lack of attention to financeis refinement, -8600:12:19,746 --> 00:12:24,918- then the Marches arethe most elegant family in Concord.8700:12:25,085 --> 00:12:31,424We'll all grow up one day, Meg.We might as well know what we want.8800:12:32,175 --> 00:12:34,511That'll do.8900:12:34,677 --> 00:12:40,016- Put the carriage away. Quickly!- Merry Christmas.9000:12:42,519 --> 00:12:44,687I have a wonderful feeling.9100:12:44,854 --> 00:12:50,860Tell me all about Belle Gardiner.About her nose and her ring.9200:12:51,027 --> 00:12:55,198Annie says it's an emerald.Everyone's lucky but me!9300:12:55,365 --> 00:13:02,038I'm glad I don't have to go and bewith all those frightening people.9400:13:03,706 --> 00:13:10,296Jo, don't eat much at supper, anddon't shake hands . . . Your dress!9500:13:10,463 --> 00:13:15,885You stand too close to the fire.Just keep your back to the wall.9600:13:16,052 --> 00:13:21,307- What cunning little heels!- They're rather small.9700:13:21,474 --> 00:13:26,980It's only one night. Will anyonenotice they're from the rag bag?9800:13:27,146 --> 00:13:30,149You have to have heels.9900:13:31,150 --> 00:13:34,571What's that strange smell?10000:13:34,737 --> 00:13:38,408Like burnt feathers . . .10100:13:43,079 --> 00:13:47,166- Heavens above!- You've ruined me!10200:13:47,333 --> 00:13:53,339You shouldn't have had me do it.I spoil everything.10300:13:54,257 --> 00:13:58,845- I can't go out like this.- Good. I'm not going either.10400:13:59,012 --> 00:14:02,348We'll place my bow in front.10500:14:02,515 --> 00:14:05,101Yes, that covers it.10600:14:05,852 --> 00:14:09,856I'll never have suitors.I'll be an old spinster.10700:14:10,023 --> 00:14:15,111You don't need scores of suitors,only one. The right one.10800:14:15,778 --> 00:14:20,867- Listen to the child !- Meg won't be married right away.10900:14:21,034 --> 00:14:23,953With Jo's help, I never will.11000:14:26,539 --> 00:14:31,127- You must be so happy!- It's enchanting.11100:14:32,462 --> 00:14:36,466I'd best go help Mama.Excuse me.11200:15:29,352 --> 00:15:34,857- Jehosephat! I'm sorry.- Stay! It's a good hiding place.11300:15:35,024 --> 00:15:38,861I feel awkward juststanding and staring at people.11400:15:39,028 --> 00:15:43,449should I put on my jacket?I don't know the rules.11500:15:43,616 --> 00:15:48,371I'm Laurie.Theodore Laurence . . . called Laurie.11600:15:48,538 --> 00:15:54,293Jo March.So, who were you staring at?11700:15:54,460 --> 00:16:01,467- At you. What game was that?- I don't know, but I think I won.11800:16:01,634 --> 00:16:04,637Who else?11900:16:05,638 --> 00:16:09,559I was quite taken with . . . that one.12000:16:13,062 --> 00:16:16,566That's Meg.That's my sister.12100:16:18,568 --> 00:16:22,238She's completely bald in front.12200:16:22,405 --> 00:16:26,993Is it true you lived in Italyamong artists and vagrants?12300:16:27,160 --> 00:16:31,330My mother was Italian. A pianist.12400:16:33,416 --> 00:16:37,920- Grandfather disapproved of her.- I saw a play like that.12500:16:38,087 --> 00:16:41,674Do you like the theatre?Were you born there?12600:16:41,841 --> 00:16:46,846- Where . .? In Italy.- Do you speak French or Italian?12700:16:47,096 --> 00:16:51,851English at home. Francais a l'ecole.Music Conservatory, -12800:16:52,018 --> 00:16:56,606- but Grandfather got me a tutor.He insists I go to college.12900:16:56,772 --> 00:17:01,110I'd commit murder to go to college!13000:17:01,277 --> 00:17:06,616Actually, I'm going to Europe.At least, I hope I am.13100:17:06,782 --> 00:17:12,371My great-aunt says she'll go soon.I work as her companion.13200:17:12,538 --> 00:17:19,295I have to read to her for hours.But I do all the voices.13300:17:19,462 --> 00:17:24,717Were I not going to be a writer, I'dgo to New York and pursue the stage.13400:17:24,884 --> 00:17:28,471- Are you shocked?- Very!13500:17:53,829 --> 00:17:57,500Sorry! Meg makes metake the gentleman's part.13600:17:57,667 --> 00:18:01,337A shame you don't knowthe lady's part!13700:18:02,171 --> 00:18:06,217Are you lookingat the back of my dress?13800:18:06,425 --> 00:18:09,512You promised you wouldn't look!13900:18:09,679 --> 00:18:13,849- I've sprained my ankle.- It's the shoes. Does it hurt?14000:18:14,016 --> 00:18:19,939- No! I'm quite well.- This is our neighbour Laurie.14100:18:20,106 --> 00:18:25,111- I'll get Mrs. Gardiner.- No, she'll think it's the punch.14200:18:25,277 --> 00:18:32,118- A perfectly good party ruined.- Let me take you home.14300:18:35,621 --> 00:18:38,040Thank you !14400:18:45,131 --> 00:18:48,634Here, lean on me.Thank you, Mr. Laurence.14500:18:48,801 --> 00:18:53,556- Bye, Laurie!- Wherever did you get this shoe?14600:18:54,807 --> 00:19:00,855Did you ride in his carriage? You'reso lucky. Is he very romantic?14700:19:00,980 --> 00:19:05,568- Not in the slightest.- He's a dreadful boy.14800:19:05,734 --> 00:19:08,487He was wise to use snow.14900:19:08,654 --> 00:19:14,326He put snow on her ankle?With his own hands?15000:19:14,493 --> 00:19:21,500- Stop being so swoony.- You mustn't be silly about boys.15100:19:21,709 --> 00:19:27,923- Does this hurt?- Everything lovely happens to Meg.15200:19:28,090 --> 00:19:33,762Don't be soppy about Laurie.I hope we'll be good friends.15300:19:33,929 --> 00:19:37,850- With a boy?- He isn't a boy. He's Laurie.15400:19:40,352 --> 00:19:43,189Faster!15500:19:46,775 --> 00:19:49,111Faster!15600:19:59,496 --> 00:20:03,876The young ladles areunusually active, if I may say so.15700:20:04,043 --> 00:20:11,216girls need exertion just like boys.Feminine weakness is the result -15800:20:11,383 --> 00:20:17,890- of keeping them at home, bent overneedlework, in restrictive corsets.15900:20:20,309 --> 00:20:23,395Marmee!16000:20:23,562 --> 00:20:27,399Your young student is an athlete.16100:20:28,484 --> 00:20:33,572He is, thank you. A good one.But he's an unruly scholar.16200:20:33,739 --> 00:20:37,993I regret that his grandfatheris away much.16300:20:38,160 --> 00:20:44,333One hopes that your girlsWill be a gentling influence.16400:20:46,502 --> 00:20:51,423Must you speak to everyoneabout corsets?16500:20:51,590 --> 00:20:54,760Do I?16600:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,266Blast these wretched skirts!16700:21:01,392 --> 00:21:06,689- Don't say "blast".- Amy, don't be such a ninny-pinny.16800:21:06,855 --> 00:21:10,401I wish I was Beth,so I could stay home.16900:21:10,609 --> 00:21:14,446If you like laundry and housework!17000:21:14,571 --> 00:21:20,160- Blast!- Amy, hurry. I'll be late for work.17100:21:20,786 --> 00:21:25,207There's Mrs. King.I'm tardy again.17200:21:26,625 --> 00:21:30,713- Lovely children !- Meg, must I go to school?17300:21:30,879 --> 00:21:36,051I'm so degradetated.I owe at least a dozen limes.17400:21:36,218 --> 00:21:40,723- Are limes the fashion?- It's nothing but limes now.17500:21:40,889 --> 00:21:45,978Everyone keeps them in their desksand trades them for beads.17600:21:46,103 --> 00:21:52,818If you don't bring limes, you'renothing. I can't pay anyone back.17700:21:53,026 --> 00:21:56,071No wonder you don't learn anything.17800:21:56,238 --> 00:22:02,244I know how it feels to do withoutluxuries. We're not destitute yet.17900:22:02,411 --> 00:22:07,833Here's a quarter. Marmeegave me the rag money this month.18000:22:14,673 --> 00:22:20,846"Secondly,the immortality of the soul -18100:22:21,054 --> 00:22:25,267- is asserted to be in consequenceof its immateriality, -18200:22:25,434 --> 00:22:28,604- as in all leipothymic cases -18300:22:28,770 --> 00:22:34,276- consistent withthe idea of immortality."18400:22:34,485 --> 00:22:39,364"And immorality and physicality . . ."18500:22:39,531 --> 00:22:45,871. . . and I thinkyou finally dozed off.18600:23:13,982 --> 00:23:17,736Josephine!There's a draught!18700:23:26,995 --> 00:23:29,248Is it Father?18800:23:32,668 --> 00:23:37,756Teacher struck me.He put the limes out into the snow.18900:23:41,259 --> 00:23:45,097May Chester saidmy limes were for the homeless.19000:23:45,263 --> 00:23:49,184So I saidshe wouldn't get any from me.19100:23:49,351 --> 00:23:54,606So she told Mr. Davis they werein my desk, and he struck me.19200:23:54,773 --> 00:24:00,862- I'll beat the tar out of him !- Jo, we must not embrace violence.19300:24:01,029 --> 00:24:05,534- I Will write him a letter.- That'll show him.19400:24:05,701 --> 00:24:09,705You didn't say they were forbidden.A month's rag money!19500:24:09,871 --> 00:24:16,545- I shouldn't have given it to you.- I'm sorry. All those lovely limes.19600:24:16,712 --> 00:24:21,883- I'm perfectly desolated.- It's a frivolous concern.19700:24:22,050 --> 00:24:26,888You're more concerned with your nosethan your character.19800:24:27,055 --> 00:24:30,976It's an appalling school.Your spelling's atrocious.19900:24:31,143 --> 00:24:35,897Mr. Davis said it was as usefulto educate a woman as a cat.20000:24:38,066 --> 00:24:41,153I'll strangle Mr. Davis!20100:24:43,155 --> 00:24:48,410"Mr. Davis . . . What right have youto strike a child?"20200:24:48,577 --> 00:24:53,749"In God's eyes we are all children.If you hit and humillate a child, -20300:24:54,332 --> 00:24:59,838- the only lesson she Will learnis to hit and humillate."20400:25:00,756 --> 00:25:06,261Can you discipline yourself tolearn at home, as Beth has done?20500:25:08,096 --> 00:25:12,184- I withdraw Amy from your school.- Serves him right!20600:25:12,350 --> 00:25:15,604Jo Will nowsupervise your education.20700:25:24,946 --> 00:25:27,449Jo, Tell me what happens next.20800:25:27,616 --> 00:25:32,037After the duke renounces his fortuneand saves Lady Zara . . .20900:25:32,204 --> 00:25:37,375I don't know. It's all murder.The damsel's in distress.21000:25:37,542 --> 00:25:40,712I love your damsels in distress.21100:25:40,879 --> 00:25:46,468Beth, truly, I don't know ifI could ever be good like Marmee.21200:25:46,635 --> 00:25:50,722I rather crave violence.21300:25:50,889 --> 00:25:57,479If only I could be like Father,and go to war and fight injustice.21400:25:57,646 --> 00:26:03,068- So Marmee does, in her own way.- Yes . . .21500:26:03,235 --> 00:26:10,242I want to do something different.I don't know what, I'm on the watch.21600:26:10,408 --> 00:26:13,578You'll find it, Jo.21700:26:22,003 --> 00:26:28,510Jo! Come over here! You too, Meg !It's dead as tombs around here.21800:26:28,677 --> 00:26:32,013One doesn't shout at ladieslike cattle.21900:26:39,854 --> 00:26:44,276My apologies!22000:27:05,630 --> 00:27:08,216What do those girls do all day?22100:27:08,383 --> 00:27:13,054Over the mysteries of female lifeis drawn a veil -22200:27:13,221 --> 00:27:15,473- best left undisturbed.22300:27:41,082 --> 00:27:43,918"Dear Countess, pray for me, -22400:27:44,085 --> 00:27:48,923- for I have sinned against myselfand my brother Roderigo."22500:27:49,090 --> 00:27:53,595You've got to say "sinned"as if you've really sinned.22600:27:55,847 --> 00:28:01,186Roderigo: You arrive,seeking the Duke of Lancashire.22700:28:01,352 --> 00:28:05,857Hark, ye! Who goes there?I forgot the cymbals.22800:28:06,024 --> 00:28:09,527It's Roderigo!22900:28:12,113 --> 00:28:17,952I want to be Lady Violet.I'm exhaustified of being the boy.23000:28:18,119 --> 00:28:22,624"The play's the thing," Amy.You're too little to be Lady Violet.23100:28:22,791 --> 00:28:27,295- Be the Countess de Montanescu.- You've no lines.23200:28:27,462 --> 00:28:30,715Besides, who'd be Roderigo?23300:28:31,966 --> 00:28:35,470Gentlemen . . .23400:28:35,637 --> 00:28:40,558I propose a new member forour theatrical soclety:23500:28:40,725 --> 00:28:43,561Theodore Laurence.23600:28:43,728 --> 00:28:47,732- He'll laugh at us.- He'll think it's only a game.23700:28:47,899 --> 00:28:53,738- He won't. I promise.- We'd have to guard our conduct.23800:28:53,905 --> 00:28:56,908We bare our souls and Tell secrets.23900:28:57,075 --> 00:29:02,080- He would find us improper.- Teddy would certainly not!24000:29:02,247 --> 00:29:06,668Please! Let's try him, shall we?24100:29:08,920 --> 00:29:14,175- Traitor!- Artists! May I present myself . . .24200:29:14,342 --> 00:29:17,011. . . as an actor, musician, -24300:29:17,178 --> 00:29:21,766- and a loyal and humble servantof the club.24400:29:21,933 --> 00:29:27,188In token of my gratitudeand to promote communication, -24500:29:27,355 --> 00:29:33,444- shouting from the windowsbeing forbidden, I shall provide -24600:29:33,611 --> 00:29:36,447- a post office in our hedge.24700:29:36,614 --> 00:29:41,119To further encouragethe baring of our souls -24800:29:41,286 --> 00:29:44,205- and the Telling of our secrets.24900:29:47,709 --> 00:29:53,464I do pledge never to revealwhat I hear in confidence here.25000:29:57,802 --> 00:30:01,055well then . . .25100:30:01,889 --> 00:30:07,812- Do take your place, Roderigo.- Sir Roderigo.25200:30:15,653 --> 00:30:19,323So Laurie was admittedinto our soclety.25300:30:19,490 --> 00:30:26,080And we enjoyed the daily noveltyof having our own real brother.25400:30:29,333 --> 00:30:36,507- I want to go to the theatre!- No. Where are the opera glasses?25500:30:36,674 --> 00:30:41,846You're just hogging Laurie.Please, can't I go?25600:30:42,013 --> 00:30:45,933Laurie only reserved four seats.Do I look shabby?25700:30:46,100 --> 00:30:51,689It's not a coronation, just Laurieand that awful Mr. Brooke.25800:30:51,856 --> 00:30:56,110- Ask him for another ticket.- No.25900:30:56,277 --> 00:31:01,032- You've a cold. Rest your eyes.- We'll make ginger tea.26000:31:01,199 --> 00:31:07,705You're weeks behind in algebra.I won't have an ignorant sister.26100:31:07,872 --> 00:31:11,459Don't sulk,you look like a pigeon.26200:31:18,216 --> 00:31:20,802You'll be sorry, Jo March !26300:31:34,065 --> 00:31:36,400Thank you.26400:31:36,567 --> 00:31:40,738Mrs. Neil Watson,wasn't she a wonderful swooner?26500:31:40,905 --> 00:31:45,576- If only I were the swooning type.- And I the catching type!26600:31:46,410 --> 00:31:51,082Young Laurence says you arean aficionado of the theatre.26700:31:52,166 --> 00:31:55,336I enjoy reading plays.26800:31:55,503 --> 00:31:59,423Yes,I find it most pleasurable myself.26900:31:59,590 --> 00:32:05,429But I am distracted at the theatre,thinking of actors' peculiar lives.27000:32:05,596 --> 00:32:12,019With such immodestles, one wonderswhat sort of lady wants such a life.27100:32:12,186 --> 00:32:17,525Meg is a sensational actress.We put on wild theatricals.27200:32:17,692 --> 00:32:20,778It's just something that we play at.27300:32:22,780 --> 00:32:27,368well, as a matter of fact,at school . . .27400:32:27,535 --> 00:32:33,124What do you think of that?Let's see what they do!27500:32:41,549 --> 00:32:44,719I had a wonderful time, Mr. Brooke.27600:32:44,885 --> 00:32:48,055It was a most delightful evening.27700:32:48,222 --> 00:32:52,893- Thank you very much. Goodnight!- Goodnight!27800:32:57,982 --> 00:33:01,819- That was rude.- You plastered yourself on him.27900:33:01,986 --> 00:33:07,575- It's proper to take a man's arm.- How was the theatre?28000:33:07,742 --> 00:33:13,998It was wonderful. I was absolutelyinspired by the love scene.28100:33:15,166 --> 00:33:19,170You look flushed.Was the theatre overcrowded?28200:33:23,674 --> 00:33:26,927Still sulking?28300:33:36,854 --> 00:33:40,775Where did I put my manuscript?28400:34:00,044 --> 00:34:03,214I didn't do it!28500:34:03,380 --> 00:34:06,133I'm going to kill you !28600:34:07,551 --> 00:34:10,638Jehosephat!28700:34:10,805 --> 00:34:13,557How could you do this to me?28800:34:13,724 --> 00:34:16,560Jo, stop it!You're hurting her.28900:34:16,727 --> 00:34:22,399- Let her go. What's happened?- I hate you !29000:34:25,569 --> 00:34:30,074Don't touch it, just let it go.29100:34:31,492 --> 00:34:34,995You're dead ! You're nothing !29200:34:35,162 --> 00:34:38,833I never want to see you again !29300:34:48,092 --> 00:34:52,847It's a great loss.You have every right to be put out.29400:34:53,013 --> 00:34:57,935But don't let the sun go down onyour anger. Forgive each other.29500:34:58,102 --> 00:35:04,441- Begin again tomorrow.- I'll never forgive her.29600:35:06,861 --> 00:35:09,697I'm sorry, Jo.29700:35:32,511 --> 00:35:34,888Looks like the last ice this year.29800:35:36,640 --> 00:35:41,228- Say "go".- Wait for me.29900:35:41,395 --> 00:35:45,983Ignore her.Ready . . . Blast!30000:36:15,554 --> 00:36:17,681Amy!30100:36:17,890 --> 00:36:20,768Hold on !30200:36:24,271 --> 00:36:27,358Hold on, Amy!30300:36:28,317 --> 00:36:30,402Get a rail !30400:36:34,573 --> 00:36:37,534Grab it, Amy!30500:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,293Hold on !30600:36:51,965 --> 00:36:55,928There we go.That's it, that's it.30700:36:57,638 --> 00:37:02,810Josephine March, you walked fromWalden Pond in just bloomers?30800:37:02,976 --> 00:37:08,190- As if she noticed ! Dear Amy.- How could I be so horrible?30900:37:08,315 --> 00:37:13,070- Thank God for Laurie.- Do you love him more than me?31000:37:13,237 --> 00:37:19,910Don't be a beetle! I could neverlove anyone as I love my sisters.31100:37:20,953 --> 00:37:26,166You left out the part where LadyZara succumbs to the duke's rival.31200:37:26,333 --> 00:37:29,753Right! Sir Hugo . . .31300:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,507I quite prefer him myself.31400:37:38,971 --> 00:37:46,019ln the spring, we prepared for Megto go to Sally Moffat's coming-out.31500:37:46,186 --> 00:37:50,357Myself, l'd sooner be hungthan attend a fancy ball.31600:37:50,524 --> 00:37:53,569Wait until all Boston sees you !31700:37:53,777 --> 00:37:58,365I told Laurie to keep you from beinga wallflower upon penalty of death.31800:37:58,532 --> 00:38:01,368Where is that miserable glove?31900:38:01,535 --> 00:38:06,206Abigail, I shake my headat how you're managing Margaret.32000:38:06,373 --> 00:38:10,711How is she to be marriedwithout a proper d?ut?32100:38:10,878 --> 00:38:15,173Things Will not changewith your husband's return.32200:38:15,382 --> 00:38:20,304My nephew is as foolish with moneyas with his new philosophies.32300:38:20,470 --> 00:38:25,601The one hope for your familyis for Margaret to marry well.32400:38:25,726 --> 00:38:30,564Though I don't knowwho marries governesses.32500:38:30,731 --> 00:38:35,903And this one is entirely ruinedwith books. Are those for me?32600:38:36,069 --> 00:38:41,325They're for Meg to take with her.Marmee, she's lost a glove!32700:38:41,533 --> 00:38:44,828She can't go without gloves.They're soclety.32800:38:44,995 --> 00:38:48,498You're right. She may borrow mine.32900:38:49,750 --> 00:38:54,504- Meg ! You can take Marmee's!- Oh, dear . . .33000:38:57,090 --> 00:39:00,552- More tea?- No thank you !33100:39:14,775 --> 00:39:19,446Sally Moffat, you won't be ableto draw your laces.33200:39:19,571 --> 00:39:22,532At my coming-out,I didn't eat for weeks.33300:39:28,538 --> 00:39:33,794- I do like that colour on you.- It's just like forget-me-nots.33400:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,214I haven't seen such fabricfor years.33500:39:37,381 --> 00:39:43,970- But you had it made up so plain.- well, I do my own sewing, and . . .33600:39:44,137 --> 00:39:49,142Mrs. Finster has silk piecesready-made. I'll take you there.33700:39:49,309 --> 00:39:54,523The Marches don't buy silk.They have views on slavery.33800:39:54,648 --> 00:39:59,736Didn't your father's school closewhen he admitted a dark girl?33900:39:59,903 --> 00:40:04,408Mrs Finster's silk isn't fromthe South. It's from Linfield.34000:40:04,574 --> 00:40:09,996- This isn't China silk?- The silk mills use child labour.34100:40:11,498 --> 00:40:18,255"The poor are always with us."You're so good to remind us.34200:40:21,675 --> 00:40:24,469May I Tell you something?34300:40:24,594 --> 00:40:29,516This is an afternoon dress.I'll make you my pet.34400:40:30,267 --> 00:40:33,520Hortense, viens ici.34500:40:35,438 --> 00:40:40,193Tonight, Miss Marchshall have many conquests.34600:40:40,402 --> 00:40:43,947You have no corset!34700:41:09,556 --> 00:41:13,393The next dance is the polka.With me.34800:41:13,560 --> 00:41:18,231I would dance with you,but I fear for my new slippers.34900:41:18,440 --> 00:41:22,861My credo is: Don't tread on me!35000:41:22,986 --> 00:41:28,575Miss March . . . I thought your familywere temperance people?35100:41:33,747 --> 00:41:38,668Don't cover up. Maybe someonehasn't seen all your charms.35200:41:38,793 --> 00:41:42,088And I promised Jo I'd show you off.35300:41:42,255 --> 00:41:49,346- The girls dressed me. I like it.- It reveals a whole new Meg.35400:41:49,471 --> 00:41:52,766What do you call this?35500:42:07,989 --> 00:42:10,450Meg . . .35600:42:11,701 --> 00:42:14,871I'm sorry.35700:42:15,038 --> 00:42:20,210Please don't Tell Johow I've behaved.35800:42:20,377 --> 00:42:23,296If you won't Tell about me.35900:42:23,463 --> 00:42:28,718I just wanted to see how it feltto be Belle Gardiner.36000:42:28,885 --> 00:42:34,391- Ail those proposals and gloves.- You're worth ten of those girls.36100:42:34,557 --> 00:42:41,231Have you seen the way the March girlwent after the Laurence heir?36200:42:47,237 --> 00:42:51,908This ridiculous dress!I keep tripping over it.36300:42:52,033 --> 00:42:57,997tle some of it around your neck,where it can do some good.36400:42:58,164 --> 00:43:04,421I don't like people speculatingabout Laurie and Meg.36500:43:04,587 --> 00:43:09,926Nothing provokes speculationlike a woman enjoying herself.36600:43:10,093 --> 00:43:16,099- Why may Laurie flirt and drink?- And no one thinks less of him?36700:43:16,266 --> 00:43:20,186For one practical reason:Laurie is a man.36800:43:20,353 --> 00:43:25,942So he may vote, hold propertyand pursue any profession.36900:43:26,109 --> 00:43:29,696And so he is not so easily demeaned.37000:43:29,821 --> 00:43:35,285- Who cares what people think?- I do.37100:43:35,452 --> 00:43:41,374It's nice to be praised and admired.I couldn't help but like it.37200:43:41,541 --> 00:43:44,461I only carewhat you think of yourself.37300:43:44,669 --> 00:43:50,466If you feel your value liesin being decorative, I fear -37400:43:50,675 --> 00:43:56,139- one day you may think that's allyou are. Time erodes beauty, -37500:43:56,306 --> 00:44:00,727- but notthe wonderful workings of your mind.37600:44:00,852 --> 00:44:05,899Your humour, your kindness . . .and your moral courage.37700:44:06,065 --> 00:44:09,903These are the thingsI cherish in you.37800:44:10,069 --> 00:44:16,576I wish it was a just world. I knowyou'll make it a better place.37900:44:52,278 --> 00:44:56,699No, I don't want them.Keep the music too.38000:44:56,908 --> 00:45:02,538You need your books in college.Here's Dombey and Son.38100:45:02,705 --> 00:45:07,335Honestly, I won't needall of Dickens at Harvard.38200:45:07,460 --> 00:45:12,131No, you'll havemore important things to read.38300:45:13,633 --> 00:45:16,970Nothing's going to change, Jo.38400:45:17,136 --> 00:45:22,183- I wish I could go.- I wish you could, too.38500:45:23,226 --> 00:45:28,481You'll come back knowing thingsI don't know, and I'll hate you !38600:45:31,067 --> 00:45:37,240As it happens, I already knowsomething you don't know.38700:45:37,407 --> 00:45:42,495About Megand a certain former tutor, -38800:45:42,662 --> 00:45:46,666- soon to be employedat Laurence and Laurence.38900:45:46,833 --> 00:45:53,673Has Meg mislaid a certain personalarticle, such as . . .39000:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,009. . . a glove?39100:45:59,512 --> 00:46:05,184- John Brooke stole your glove!- What glove? The white one?39200:46:05,351 --> 00:46:09,856He's had it forever.He keeps it in his pocket!39300:46:10,022 --> 00:46:15,528- Don't you think he must return it?- What I think doesn't matter.39400:46:19,282 --> 00:46:24,036A telegram from Washington Hospital.39500:46:24,203 --> 00:46:28,291Your father's been wounded.39600:46:35,798 --> 00:46:39,969- You'll have enough for the month.- Don't worry.39700:46:40,136 --> 00:46:44,140- Look in on the Hummels for me.- I will.39800:46:44,307 --> 00:46:46,976Where's Jo?39900:46:47,143 --> 00:46:50,980Battling Aunt Marchfor Marmee's ticket.40000:46:52,315 --> 00:46:58,237- John . . . Mr. Brooke.- I Will escort your mother.40100:46:58,404 --> 00:47:04,660Cook packed supper, and there'sa bottle of spirits for Mr. March.40200:47:04,827 --> 00:47:07,580Mr. Brooke is here.40300:47:07,747 --> 00:47:14,587I'm no longer a tutor. Mr. Laurencehas work for me in Washington.40400:47:14,754 --> 00:47:19,342- We couldn't let you travel alone.- How kind of you !40500:47:19,508 --> 00:47:23,763- We'll take the six o'clock train?- Yes, I sent Jo . . .40600:47:23,930 --> 00:47:28,434Finally . . . 25!Can Aunt March spare it?40700:47:29,352 --> 00:47:32,188I couldn't bear to ask her . . .40800:47:32,355 --> 00:47:37,693- I sold my hair.- Jo, your one beauty!40900:47:37,860 --> 00:47:42,782- It'll grow back.- It suits you.41000:47:42,949 --> 00:47:45,868Tell Father that we love him.41100:47:46,035 --> 00:47:50,957Tell him we pray for him.41200:47:57,296 --> 00:48:00,967I shall miss my little women !41300:48:22,738 --> 00:48:25,908Are you thinking about Father?41400:48:27,159 --> 00:48:30,830No, my hair . . .41500:48:52,268 --> 00:48:54,353Wait for me!41600:48:56,522 --> 00:49:01,694- Blast! This stove . . .- We'll eat them anyway.41700:49:01,861 --> 00:49:06,365There's no corn meal or coffee.We can't get credit.41800:49:06,532 --> 00:49:11,036- What can I bring the Hummels?- Oh, fry the Hummels!41900:49:11,203 --> 00:49:15,958- The boys are sick.- I mustn't Tell Marmee.42000:49:16,125 --> 00:49:18,961I hate money!42100:49:21,547 --> 00:49:24,133Your potatoes!42200:49:58,751 --> 00:50:03,839I don't understand.I brought a . . .42300:50:38,540 --> 00:50:41,627- Laurie's home!- He must need funds.42400:50:41,794 --> 00:50:46,382We'd get a week's foodfrom his billiard money.42500:50:55,307 --> 00:51:01,313Meg, I sold "The Lost Duke ofGIoucester"! Five whole dollars!42600:51:01,480 --> 00:51:07,569- I'm an author . . . Beth?- The Hummel baby is sick.42700:51:10,823 --> 00:51:14,743I feel so strange.42800:51:17,496 --> 00:51:22,501She's hot, but she feels cold.She's thirsty, but won't drink.42900:51:22,668 --> 00:51:27,840- Arsenic? Belladonna?- I saw the Hummels.43000:51:28,007 --> 00:51:35,097Two children are dead from scarletfever. You and Miss Jo have had it.43100:51:35,264 --> 00:51:40,269But, Miss Amy . . .We must send you away.43200:51:47,109 --> 00:51:51,447She won't die, Will she, Laurie?43300:51:51,613 --> 00:51:53,949God won't let her die.43400:51:55,701 --> 00:51:58,954I don't want to go away.43500:51:59,121 --> 00:52:04,793I'll come every day, I swear.You won't be alone.43600:52:10,049 --> 00:52:13,302I'm afraid of Aunt March.43700:52:14,887 --> 00:52:20,225If she's unkind to you,I'll take come and take you away.43800:52:20,392 --> 00:52:25,314- Where Will we go?- Paris?43900:52:29,067 --> 00:52:34,823If I die of scarlet fever, give Megmy box with the green doves on it.44000:52:34,990 --> 00:52:39,661- Jo can have my turquoise ring.- I'll see to it.44100:52:39,828 --> 00:52:46,335I don't want to die.I've never even been kissed.44200:52:46,502 --> 00:52:51,507I've waited my whole lifeto be kissed. What if I miss it?44300:52:51,673 --> 00:52:54,510I'll Tell you what . . .44400:52:54,676 --> 00:53:00,015I promise to kiss youbefore you die.44500:53:20,702 --> 00:53:22,955Marmee mustn't leave Father.44600:53:23,121 --> 00:53:27,960- Beth needs her.- What if Father gets worse?44700:53:28,126 --> 00:53:33,131And how would we pay for the train?44800:53:33,298 --> 00:53:36,885"That he profane notmy sancteraries . . ."44900:53:37,052 --> 00:53:40,556- Sanctuaries.- Sanctuaries.45000:53:40,722 --> 00:53:44,726"For I the Lord do sanctify them."45100:53:44,893 --> 00:53:52,568"And Moses told it unto Aaron,and to all the children of Israel."45200:53:55,570 --> 00:53:57,656Go on.45300:54:00,826 --> 00:54:03,495"And the Lord said to Moses . . ."45400:54:08,667 --> 00:54:11,503Jo, Mr. Laurence is here.45500:54:16,591 --> 00:54:24,182If we may, my personal physicianWill examine the little girl.45600:54:38,613 --> 00:54:44,619There's nothing to be done.If I bleed her, it Will finish her.45700:54:44,786 --> 00:54:47,789Best to send for the mother.45800:54:47,956 --> 00:54:53,628I've already done so.Mrs. March arrives tonight.45900:55:03,055 --> 00:55:05,974Jo!46000:55:08,977 --> 00:55:12,814Cricket, Marmee's here.46100:55:17,652 --> 00:55:19,905Icy cold !46200:55:20,072 --> 00:55:26,745Jo, fetch a basin of vinegar, water,and some rags. Meg, my kit.46300:55:26,912 --> 00:55:29,748We'll draw the fever downfrom her head.46400:56:10,288 --> 00:56:13,458Beth . . .46500:56:42,320 --> 00:56:48,493And so our Beth came back to us,although fever weakened her heart.46600:56:48,660 --> 00:56:52,497We did not knowthat a shadow had fallen.46700:56:52,664 --> 00:56:55,750We prepared for another Christmaswithout Father.46800:56:56,585 --> 00:57:01,339- Try each corner.- No! One bow's enough.46900:57:07,262 --> 00:57:12,100- I'm so sorry!- It happens all the time.47000:57:13,184 --> 00:57:18,106- Here she comes.- What shall I do with the bows?47100:57:31,119 --> 00:57:35,206The house is beautiful.47200:57:47,135 --> 00:57:51,723Friends of mine from college.Freddy Vaughan, Averill Watson.47300:57:51,890 --> 00:57:55,060They won't bite.47400:58:00,315 --> 00:58:04,152- No, don't sit there, sit . . .- Here!47500:58:04,319 --> 00:58:08,823- Sit here, child. Merry Christmas!- Merry Christmas!47600:58:16,748 --> 00:58:21,169I should have given it to youlong ago.47700:58:21,336 --> 00:58:27,926It belonged to my little girl.She left us when she was very young.47800:58:28,093 --> 00:58:32,430But now it Will make music again.47900:58:41,773 --> 00:58:45,360Thank you, Mr. Laurence.48000:58:45,527 --> 00:58:49,197Merry Christmas.48100:58:49,364 --> 00:58:54,119- Play something, Beth.- shall I?48200:59:49,173 --> 00:59:51,426That was good.48300:59:51,593 --> 00:59:55,179I fear you'll havea long engagement.48400:59:55,346 --> 01:00:00,268John must get a house firstand do his service.48501:00:00,435 --> 01:00:05,440John? Marry?That pokey old Mr. Brooke?48601:00:05,607 --> 01:00:08,943How did he sneak into this family?48701:00:09,110 --> 01:00:15,950- He visits Father every day.- He's dull. Find someone amusing !48801:00:16,117 --> 01:00:21,873He is good, kind and serious.I'm not afraid of being poor.48901:00:22,040 --> 01:00:26,210You can't just let her goand marry him.49001:00:26,377 --> 01:00:31,716Better to be a poor man's wifethan to lose one's self-respect.49101:00:33,301 --> 01:00:39,057- You don't mind that he's poor?- No. But I'd rather he had a house.49201:00:39,223 --> 01:00:43,644Why marry?Why can't things stay as they are?49301:00:43,811 --> 01:00:47,565It's a proposal,nothing need be decided.49401:00:48,649 --> 01:00:51,652Let's not spoil the day.49501:01:01,412 --> 01:01:07,668- Father . .? Father!- What a wonderful present!49601:01:16,177 --> 01:01:20,014Beth . . . Thank God you're well.49701:01:20,181 --> 01:01:22,517Give him room !49801:01:22,683 --> 01:01:26,270My wild girl !49901:01:26,437 --> 01:01:31,025This could become the fashion.50001:01:31,192 --> 01:01:36,781- Be very careful.- Don't coddle me too much.50101:01:38,282 --> 01:01:44,789- Hannah . . . It's good to see you.- It's good to have you home.50201:01:44,956 --> 01:01:49,210Let me look at my girls.50301:02:00,888 --> 01:02:03,641Cholera took more men than the rebs.50401:02:03,808 --> 01:02:09,230Agriculture isn't taught,and it should be.50501:02:09,397 --> 01:02:14,485- What happened with you and John?- Never you mind.50601:02:15,485 --> 01:02:25,485Downloaded From www.AllSubs.org