Little Women (1933)

Little Women is a pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and released in 1933. This is the book's third cinematic adaptation. When this, the official rendition of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about the March sisters, was released, Hepburn was just 26 years old. However, the ingenue demonstrated that she was already a serious talent.

The film's vignettes, which follow the March girls' fleeting seasonal sorrows and joys, are rooted and propelled by Hepburn's extraordinary performance, which is continually longing for more yet unwilling to let go of the past. Anyone who has watched the film knows that Hepburn deserved to be nominated for an Oscar, yet she was not. Instead, she was nominated for an Academy Award that year for the backstage Broadway drama Morning Glory, which she went on to win.