Yes! I always imagined him to look her like that in the book too when he says "heart's dearest why do you cry?" all the feels! Thanks for commenting and do check out the Little Women podcast! ruclips.net/p/PLlvBupY5iidqidu1p5VW1MPXwrMkKcFyX
I really love this scene and especially the rainbow, as if Beth would send this little gift of hope from heaven. This was curiously the first vesion of Little Women (before even reading the novel) and it was also my first encounter with Friedrich Bhaer. Because I'm German, too, I'm also intrigued by his character.
That´s a nice thought about the rainbow being a message from Beth. Sie kommen aus Deutschland :) do check my video essay on Louisa May Alcott´s love for Germany. ruclips.net/video/OlcAPh_yWAY/видео.html&ab_channel=SmallUmbrellaInTheRain-LittleWomenChannel
@A. Aubry Either 1994 or 1933 hahaha. I do love 1949 version as well esp. what it comes to Jo and Fritz. Katherine Hepburn and Winona Ryder are my favorite Jo's.
Nothing gets better than Gone With The Wind, and Little Women. ❤❤ I wish Hollywood would go back to the way it was in the 30s 40s and 50s with making quality films.
PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING I get lots of comments to this channel people complaining or criticising looks of the actors or book characters, I usually block them because these people don´t seem to know anything about Little Women (and I want my audience to feel safe in the comment section). This is what happened in the novel and in LMA´s life. Friedrich and adaptive Attractiveness There is nothing new about "sexing up" both Jo and Fritz. Rossano Brazzi, Gabriel Byrne, Ian Bohen and Louis Garrel are all very good looking men. Rossano is often referred to as the "beautiful professor Bhaer". Back in the days hiring Gabriel Byrne as Fritz caused similar discussion like there has been now on hiring Louis Garrel. Gabriel Byrne has been voted as the sexiest man of Ireland multiple times. He has been listed by People as one of the "Sexiest Men Alive and in early 2020 Glamour voted him as the sexiest actor in the world. Gabriel turns 70 this year. Louis Garrel has been voted the sexiest man in France. As you can see, there has been a very conscious effort in hiring good-looking actors to play Fritz. This goes back to the old debate does hiring a good-looking actor to play a character who in the story is handsome-not-handsome affect the story? When it comes to the book, Friedrich is not written to be conventionally handsome, but Jo is incredibly attracted to him because Friedrich is based on a man to who Alcott was attracted to. This makes the whole debate about the looks of the movie Friedrich tricky. The 1949 film having a beautiful man, like Rossano, plays Friedrich's kinda works because it does the same mistake as most Little Women films. It doesn´t give Laurie a character arc!!!!! or book Laurie´s complicated personality. In this version especially, Laurie has been made almost too likeable and all the questionable things he does in the books are missing (same with the 2019 film!). In all these films having a good-looking actor to play, Fritz makes it easier for the viewer to understand why Jo wants to be with him because Fritz is always compared to Laurie and unfortunately most people don´t read the books and don´t know that the reason why Jo rejected Laurie was that he was immature and did not share her life values (none of this is in the films): Movies have been criticized for having attractive actors to play Jo as well. Jo is not written to be pretty, in fact in the novel she has discomforts about her looks and has been told that she is not suitable for marriage, for she is not considered attractive. Louisa was commissioned to write Little Women in 1867 and it brought her wealth but also life-long fame. She was always frustrated by the devoted Jo-fans who were disappointed by her looks since they imagined Jo to be pretty. Louisa herself wasn´t very attractive, and her illness must have affected her body image. The most widely accepted cause for Louisa´s health problems and early death is mercury poisoning. During her American Civil War service, Alcott contracted typhoid fever and was treated with a compound containing mercury. One of the main models for Laurie was a Polish composer called Ladislas Wisniewski. He was 10 years younger than Louisa. The conventionally good-looking young man who she met while working in Switzerland, a year prior to Little Women was written. The best way to describe him was flicky. He flirted with Louisa for weeks and then allegedly proposed to Louisa´s employee (I go into detail about this in my video essay "love and sex in little women" that you can find on this channel). There have been some speculations made that Wisniewski was a conman who prayed on wealthy women. He told Louisa that he had tuberculosis, she took care of him and he was "miraculously" cured. I don´t know if he was a conman or not but I think he was looking for someone to nanny him like Laurie wants Jo to nanny him. This kind of relationship is unbalanced and not healthy. I think Louisa did mean Laurie´s character to be a positive example of a person who can turn their life around, whereas Ladislas turned out to be a disappointment. Still today there are a lot of people who wonder why Jo didn´t marry Laurie because Laurie was rich and good-looking. Read any novel from Louisa May Alcott, rich people are usually the unhappiest ones and the only acceptable wealthy people are the philanthropists. In Louisa´s world self-reliance is the key. Jo can not marry Laurie because he does not share this value. Friedrich does and he pushes Jo to be better in her craft and she gives him recognition as a teacher. In the book, Fritz patches his own clothes. His most eccentric flaw is that he is not good with money, not because he drinks or gambles but because he likes buying gifts for the people he loves. Laurie, on the other hand, likes to buy things for himself and gives useless gifts to his friends as a joke, which shows that he doesn´t understand his privileged position and this is what LMA often criticises in the novel. It is not until he is lectured by Amy he begins to take his life more seriously. In Little, Women Friedrich is Jo´s sexual awakening. He is written to be more masculine and more mature than Laurie. He has a beard, big hands, deep voice. In Little Men, the narrator even says that Jo loves very ”manly” men. There is some criticism over guys who are thin and more effeminate. Like Laurie and Nat. When Laurie is chacing Jo he takes a position that is almost "overly masculine" this breaks Jo´s ideas of masculinity that she had cherished. Friedrich gives her a new model, a man that is more gentle and sensitive. He never criticises Jo´s writing in the novels, he criticises the genre, Jo herself didn´t want to write sensationalism and demonises her work as trash, even before she goes to new york. It is pretty fair to say that Louisa wanted someone on her side who could feed and stimulate her brain. The main model for Friedrich was the philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Neighbour of the Alcotts. Louisa was attracted to Henry but the most important aspect of that relationship was their similar interests and the intellectual connection that they had and they did spend a lot of one-on-one time together. the age difference between them was the same as between Jo and Friedrich, 16 years. Henry is the romantic lead in all of her novels. Henry passed away when Louisa was 28. Rest of her life with Ladislas, and other men and women who she encountered. She never found them to be even remotely as intellectually stimulating as Henry was. In Little, Women Jo confesses to Friedrich that, he is her first love, and therefore the best. What Louisa does with both Jo and Fritz she is criticising the shallowness, people who are not that attractive to the outside world are worthy of love. Neither Friedrich nor Jo are ugly. It is a society that is ugly. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Yes. I agree. I love the warm athmosphere this film has. Do follow us on the little women podcast, I have an episode coming next month dedicated to this movie.
I know a lot of people criticize this version, and June Allyson's acting. But in my opinion, she's one of the few Jo's that actually feels boyish when we first meet her. I admit this version isn't my favorite, but I think there's some really nice moments in it. This is definitely one of them
I liked that they deepen their relationship in this film, I always have soft spot for the professor. Probably because the men who inspired him were so important to Louisa.
They criticize her acting?! What's to criticize? As you said, she captured Jo's boyishness, compared to Winona's overly feminine romantic Jo or Kate Hepburn's overly hammy Jo.
I came back to watch this scene again. I always pictured Jo going back into the house with Fritz and just blurting out that she wanted to introduce everyone to her future husband. I can just picture the looks on their faces, lol.
Definitely overshadowed by the 1994 version, to say the least. There are elements that I like in all adaptations. Each one brings something new to the table. In this one, I love the casting of all the sisters and Rossano and June has some of the best JoxFritz chemistry.
@@littlewomenchannel my mum my sister and myself quote lines from little women often. "Boy's ? Bless me" but also switch out the word boy's for what ever is appropriate to the subject matter at time. Lol 🤣 I need to watch it again soon. And Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock is also a long time favorite. I just love old movies especially on rainy days.
I like to quote Hannah when she says "Housekeeping is hard work" :D This and the 1933 Little Women are my comfort movies. Please do check out my Little Women Podcast too ruclips.net/video/Z7xZB2xOwQ4/видео.html
This is not just my favourite "Little Women" adaptation, its my comfort film. I had two copies of its DVDs and still own them till date. I carry it along with few more classics like, Gone with the wind, My Fair lady, pride and prejudice ( The Colin Firth version), The Sound of Music, Around the world in 80 days ( The pierce brosnan version) and few others, which you cant find on any Ott platforms. I need them wherever I go 😊
If you are interested to find out more about Friedrich´s character and how LMA came up with him check out my article: www.fairychamber.com/blog/evolution-of-friedrich-bhaer
This is an excellent cast, I love June Allyson, she's very good. Very emotioinally invested. But Mervyn LeRoy wasn't the director for this. I read George Cukor was asked to take over, but didn't want to replace a fellow director (something that had been done to him on GWTW). Clarence Brown might have been good. The cast is perfect except maybe for Lawford and Taylor. I like this a lot, anyway.
Hi Robb. That is an interesting bit about George Cukor. I did not know that. Some of the scenes in 1949 are directly taken from the 1933 film which is kinda annoying (2019 LW took scenes from 1949 and 1994 film ..and not from the book, also kinda annoying) lol. I still like a lot of things in this film. I was just talking about this with a friend of mine, that Taylor's Amy could have been much improved..if they had changed Amy's dialogue to be more serious and closer to the novel. Thanks for the comment and do check out Little Women podcast playlist. We talk a lot about the Little Women books and the films ruclips.net/video/Z7xZB2xOwQ4/видео.html
This is my favorite Little Women!!!
Awesome
the way jo looks at him is so heartwarming ❤
Yes! I always imagined him to look her like that in the book too when he says "heart's dearest why do you cry?" all the feels! Thanks for commenting and do check out the Little Women podcast! ruclips.net/p/PLlvBupY5iidqidu1p5VW1MPXwrMkKcFyX
I really love this scene and especially the rainbow, as if Beth would send this little gift of hope from heaven. This was curiously the first vesion of Little Women (before even reading the novel) and it was also my first encounter with Friedrich Bhaer. Because I'm German, too, I'm also intrigued by his character.
That´s a nice thought about the rainbow being a message from Beth. Sie kommen aus Deutschland :) do check my video essay on Louisa May Alcott´s love for Germany. ruclips.net/video/OlcAPh_yWAY/видео.html&ab_channel=SmallUmbrellaInTheRain-LittleWomenChannel
Thank you for sharing this! This is my favorite version of the Little Women movies. I have to say that Rossano is quite the beautiful man. :)
He is gorgeous. This is one of my favourite versions as well.
Yesss he is An italian goddd🇮🇹😍
@A. Aubry Either 1994 or 1933 hahaha. I do love 1949 version as well esp. what it comes to Jo and Fritz. Katherine Hepburn and Winona Ryder are my favorite Jo's.
Nothing gets better than Gone With The Wind, and Little Women. ❤❤ I wish Hollywood would go back to the way it was in the 30s 40s and 50s with making quality films.
I agree. Everything tends to be woke and provocative and making mockery of things these days. They've lost their way it feels like.
PLEASE READ BEFORE COMMENTING
I get lots of comments to this channel people complaining or criticising looks of the actors or book characters, I usually block them because these people don´t seem to know anything about Little Women (and I want my audience to feel safe in the comment section). This is what happened in the novel and in LMA´s life.
Friedrich and adaptive Attractiveness
There is nothing new about "sexing up" both Jo and Fritz. Rossano Brazzi, Gabriel Byrne, Ian Bohen and Louis Garrel are all very good looking men. Rossano is often referred to as the "beautiful professor Bhaer". Back in the days hiring Gabriel Byrne as Fritz caused similar discussion like there has been now on hiring Louis Garrel. Gabriel Byrne has been voted as the sexiest man of Ireland multiple times. He has been listed by People as one of the "Sexiest Men Alive and in early 2020 Glamour voted him as the sexiest actor in the world. Gabriel turns 70 this year. Louis Garrel has been voted the sexiest man in France. As you can see, there has been a very conscious effort in hiring good-looking actors to play Fritz.
This goes back to the old debate does hiring a good-looking actor to play a character who in the story is handsome-not-handsome affect the story? When it comes to the book, Friedrich is not written to be conventionally handsome, but Jo is incredibly attracted to him because Friedrich is based on a man to who Alcott was attracted to. This makes the whole debate about the looks of the movie Friedrich tricky.
The 1949 film having a beautiful man, like Rossano, plays Friedrich's kinda works because it does the same mistake as most Little Women films.
It doesn´t give Laurie a character arc!!!!!
or book Laurie´s complicated personality. In this version especially, Laurie has been made almost too likeable and all the questionable things he does in the books are missing (same with the 2019 film!). In all these films having a good-looking actor to play, Fritz makes it easier for the viewer to understand why Jo wants to be with him because Fritz is always compared to Laurie and unfortunately most people don´t read the books and don´t know that the reason why Jo rejected Laurie was that he was immature and did not share her life values (none of this is in the films):
Movies have been criticized for having attractive actors to play Jo as well. Jo is not written to be pretty, in fact in the novel she has discomforts about her looks and has been told that she is not suitable for marriage, for she is not considered attractive. Louisa was commissioned to write Little Women in 1867 and it brought her wealth but also life-long fame. She was always frustrated by the devoted Jo-fans who were disappointed by her looks since they imagined Jo to be pretty. Louisa herself wasn´t very attractive, and her illness must have affected her body image. The most widely accepted cause for Louisa´s health problems and early death is mercury poisoning. During her American Civil War service, Alcott contracted typhoid fever and was treated with a compound containing mercury.
One of the main models for Laurie was a Polish composer called Ladislas Wisniewski. He was 10 years younger than Louisa. The conventionally good-looking young man who she met while working in Switzerland, a year prior to Little Women was written. The best way to describe him was flicky. He flirted with Louisa for weeks and then allegedly proposed to Louisa´s employee (I go into detail about this in my video essay "love and sex in little women" that you can find on this channel). There have been some speculations made that Wisniewski was a conman who prayed on wealthy women. He told Louisa that he had tuberculosis, she took care of him and he was "miraculously" cured. I don´t know if he was a conman or not but I think he was looking for someone to nanny him like Laurie wants Jo to nanny him. This kind of relationship is unbalanced and not healthy. I think Louisa did mean Laurie´s character to be a positive example of a person who can turn their life around, whereas Ladislas turned out to be a disappointment.
Still today there are a lot of people who wonder why Jo didn´t marry Laurie because Laurie was rich and good-looking. Read any novel from Louisa May Alcott, rich people are usually the unhappiest ones and the only acceptable wealthy people are the philanthropists. In Louisa´s world self-reliance is the key. Jo can not marry Laurie because he does not share this value. Friedrich does and he pushes Jo to be better in her craft and she gives him recognition as a teacher. In the book, Fritz patches his own clothes. His most eccentric flaw is that he is not good with money, not because he drinks or gambles but because he likes buying gifts for the people he loves. Laurie, on the other hand, likes to buy things for himself and gives useless gifts to his friends as a joke, which shows that he doesn´t understand his privileged position and this is what LMA often criticises in the novel. It is not until he is lectured by Amy he begins to take his life more seriously.
In Little, Women Friedrich is Jo´s sexual awakening. He is written to be more masculine and more mature than Laurie. He has a beard, big hands, deep voice. In Little Men, the narrator even says that Jo loves very ”manly” men. There is some criticism over guys who are thin and more effeminate. Like Laurie and Nat. When Laurie is chacing Jo he takes a position that is almost "overly masculine" this breaks Jo´s ideas of masculinity that she had cherished. Friedrich gives her a new model, a man that is more gentle and sensitive. He never criticises Jo´s writing in the novels, he criticises the genre, Jo herself didn´t want to write sensationalism and demonises her work as trash, even before she goes to new york.
It is pretty fair to say that Louisa wanted someone on her side who could feed and stimulate her brain. The main model for Friedrich was the philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Neighbour of the Alcotts. Louisa was attracted to Henry but the most important aspect of that relationship was their similar interests and the intellectual connection that they had and they did spend a lot of one-on-one time together. the age difference between them was the same as between Jo and Friedrich, 16 years.
Henry is the romantic lead in all of her novels.
Henry passed away when Louisa was 28. Rest of her life with Ladislas, and other men and women who she encountered. She never found them to be even remotely as intellectually stimulating as Henry was. In Little, Women Jo confesses to Friedrich that, he is her first love, and therefore the best.
What Louisa does with both Jo and Fritz she is criticising the shallowness, people who are not that attractive to the outside world are worthy of love.
Neither Friedrich nor Jo are ugly. It is a society that is ugly.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
This version is the best - the whole film has such warmth and love and draws you into each and everyone's lives - just beautiful
Yes. I agree. I love the warm athmosphere this film has. Do follow us on the little women podcast, I have an episode coming next month dedicated to this movie.
Hier heb ik mooie herinneringen aan,prachtig gespeeld een van de mooiste kerst films .I love it 🥰😍🤩😘
it is one of my favorites as well :)
I know a lot of people criticize this version, and June Allyson's acting. But in my opinion, she's one of the few Jo's that actually feels boyish when we first meet her. I admit this version isn't my favorite, but I think there's some really nice moments in it. This is definitely one of them
I love the scene where she is shoveling snow, and they also included the part of Jo crying over a romance novel she writing
@@littlewomenchannel I also love the scene where Professor Bhaer is playing the piano and Jo comes to listen.
I liked that they deepen their relationship in this film, I always have soft spot for the professor. Probably because the men who inspired him were so important to Louisa.
@@littlewomenchannel Definitely! Just curious, have you seen the opera of Little Women? I’d love to know your thoughts on it
They criticize her acting?! What's to criticize? As you said, she captured Jo's boyishness, compared to Winona's overly feminine romantic Jo or Kate Hepburn's overly hammy Jo.
I came back to watch this scene again. I always pictured Jo going back into the house with Fritz and just blurting out that she wanted to introduce everyone to her future husband. I can just picture the looks on their faces, lol.
That would have been perfect
Molti sono stati i film su Little Women ma questo è decisamente il più bello.
Professor Baher:
"Would you marry me, Jo?"
Jo to Professor Baher:
"You bet I will!!!!!!!"
They are the sweetest
Best Little Women adaptation made !
I love this one as well!
Small Umbrella In The Rain
It’s also the most underrated in my opinion
Definitely overshadowed by the 1994 version, to say the least. There are elements that I like in all adaptations. Each one brings something new to the table. In this one, I love the casting of all the sisters and Rossano and June has some of the best JoxFritz chemistry.
Seeing this again gives me e so much Joy ❤
It is here to make us happy
@@littlewomenchannel my mum my sister and myself quote lines from little women often. "Boy's ? Bless me" but also switch out the word boy's for what ever is appropriate to the subject matter at time. Lol 🤣 I need to watch it again soon. And Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock is also a long time favorite. I just love old movies especially on rainy days.
I like to quote Hannah when she says "Housekeeping is hard work" :D This and the 1933 Little Women are my comfort movies. Please do check out my Little Women Podcast too ruclips.net/video/Z7xZB2xOwQ4/видео.html
This is not just my favourite "Little Women" adaptation, its my comfort film.
I had two copies of its DVDs and still own them till date.
I carry it along with few more classics like, Gone with the wind, My Fair lady, pride and prejudice ( The Colin Firth version), The Sound of Music, Around the world in 80 days ( The pierce brosnan version) and few others, which you cant find on any Ott platforms.
I need them wherever I go 😊
Around the world in 80 days with Pierce Brosnan, I love that version to bits. I watch it every year
@@littlewomenchannel
Yes, I couldn't agree more about the cozy atmosphere.
Thanks so much will listen to it today after winding up the day 😀
Gorgeous
yes
If you are interested to find out more about Friedrich´s character and how LMA came up with him check out my article: www.fairychamber.com/blog/evolution-of-friedrich-bhaer
This is an excellent cast, I love June Allyson, she's very good. Very emotioinally invested. But Mervyn LeRoy wasn't the director for this. I read George Cukor was asked to take over, but didn't want to replace a fellow director (something that had been done to him on GWTW). Clarence Brown might have been good. The cast is perfect except maybe for Lawford and Taylor. I like this a lot, anyway.
Hi Robb. That is an interesting bit about George Cukor. I did not know that. Some of the scenes in 1949 are directly taken from the 1933 film which is kinda annoying (2019 LW took scenes from 1949 and 1994 film ..and not from the book, also kinda annoying) lol. I still like a lot of things in this film. I was just talking about this with a friend of mine, that Taylor's Amy could have been much improved..if they had changed Amy's dialogue to be more serious and closer to the novel. Thanks for the comment and do check out Little Women podcast playlist. We talk a lot about the Little Women books and the films ruclips.net/video/Z7xZB2xOwQ4/видео.html
I love this scene ❤️❤️❤️
It's so beautiful 💖💖💖
Il mio preferito ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This movie…..❤❤❤❤❤❤
It's so good
Eu acho linda essa cena!
Si fuésemos así de educados, unos con otros, seríamos más sanos y felices...
:)
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