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Little Men (1940 film)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Little Men
| image = Little Men - 1940 Poster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = 1940 Theatrical Poster
| director = Norman Z. McLeod
| producer = C. Graham Baker
Donald J. Ehlers
Gene Towne
| writer = Mark Kelly
Arthur Caesar
Jack Wagner
| based_on =
| starring = Kay Francis
Jack Oakie
George Bancroft
| music = Roy Webb
| cinematography = Nicholas Musuraca
| editing = George Hively
| studio = RKO Radio Pictures
| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
| released =
| runtime = 84 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'Little Men' (1940) is an American film based on the novel 'Little Men' (1871) by Louisa May Alcott. Norman Z. McLeod directed the film. It is the second sequel to Little Women (1933 film) after Little Men (1934 film)
Plot
Jo March (Kay Francis), the lead character in Alcott's novel 'Little Women', now runs a private school for young boys.
Cast
* Kay Francis as Jo March
* Jack Oakie as Willie the Fox
* George Bancroft as Major Burdle
* Jimmy Lydon as Dan
* Ann Gillis as Nan
* Carl Esmond as Professor Bhaer
* Richard Nichols as Teddy
* Francesca Santoro as Bess
* Lillian Randolph as Asia
* Johnny Burke as Silas
* Sammy McKim as Tommy
* Edward Rice as Demi
* Anne Howard as Daisy
* Jimmy Zahner as Jack
* Bobby Cooper as Adolphus
* Schuyler Standish as Nat
* Paul Matthews as Stuffy
* Tony Neil as Ned
* Fred Estes as Emmett
* Douglas Rucker as Billy
* Donald Rackerby as Frank
* William Demarest as Constable Tom Thorpe
* Sterling Holloway as Reporter
* Isabel Jewell as Stella
* Elsie the Cow as Buttercup
Charles Arnt, Stanley Blystone, Nora Cecil, Hal K. Dawson, Sarah Edwards, George D. Green, Jack Henderson, Howard C. Hickman, Lloyd Ingraham, George Irving, William Irving, Bud Jamison, Nella Walker, Clarence Wilson and Duke York appear uncredited.
Soundtrack
*Lillian Randolph - "Roll, Jordan, Roll" (Traditional Negro spiritual)
*Schuyler Standish - "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair" (Written by Stephen Foster)
*Lillian Randolph - "Aura Lea" (Music by George R. Poulton, lyrics by W.W. Fosdick)
Reception
The film recorded a loss of $214,000.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, 'The RKO Story.' New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p157
See also
* Little Women (disambiguation)
References
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