Louisa May Alcott’s real life makes an appearance on the screen as it is incorporated into the new movie version of Little Women. The new film version of Alcott’s Reconstruction Era classic is set for a Christmas Day release. According to Smithsonian Magazine:
Visitors who flock to Orchard House in search of some sign of their beloved March sisters of Little Women fame won’t be disappointed. At the Concord, Massachusetts, museum that housed Louisa May Alcott and her family in the 1860s, they’ll find the flowered mural May (who inspired the book’s character Amy) painted on the wall over Louisa’s writing desk, and a gnarled pillow that “Lu,” like Jo March, used to indicate her mood.
For Greta Gerwig, writer and director of the spirited new film adaptation of Little Women, shooting the movie in Concord proved key to imagining Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth. “I know families like that, where they let the kids write on the walls,” she said, in a panel following a screening of the film in late October. “It was such a gift to be there, steeped in the place. People leave traces.”
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