Little Women (1933 film) 1994 film "Little Women", starring Winona Ryder, and the upcoming 2019 film "Little Women" featuring Saoirse Ronan. Set in Concord, Massachusetts, during and after the American Civil War, the film is a series of vignettes focusing on the struggles and adventures of the four March sisters and their mother, affectionately known as Marmee (Spring Byington), while they await the return of their father (Samuel S. Hinds), who serves as a colonel and a chaplain in the Union Army. Spirited tomboy Jo (Katharine Hepburn), who caters to the whims of their well-to-do Aunt March (Edna May Oliver), dreams of becoming a
Little Women eighth film adaptation, which will be directed by Greta Gerwig, is scheduled for release on December 25, 2019. "Little Women" was adapted into a television musical, in 1958, by composer Richard Adler for CBS. "Little Women" has been made into a serial four times by the BBC: in 1950 (when it was shown live), in 1958, in 1970, and in 2017. The 2017 series development was supported by PBS, and was aired as part of the PBS Masterpiece anthology in 2018. In the 1980s, two anime series were made in Japan "Little Women" in 1981 and "Tales of Little Women"