Cheap Production, Great Acting
STARGAZER | UTAH, USA | 12/28/2009
(3 out of 5 stars)
"It looks like some people here don't recognize great acting when they see it. It's a TV production,[Studio One, 1950] made in the days when all "movies for TV" looked like they were taking place on a stage. They probably were! Yet there are some bona fide movie stars in the production. I have seen all the filmed versions of "Little Women" since the first one and Kent Smith in this version is the best Professor Baer of them all. I have seen several of his Hollywood films and some are quite good but it looks like this role was the one Smith was born to play. Too bad he couldn't do it in the movies, in a production easier on the eyes. His German accent is perfect and he portrays the impoverished professor so movingly that he should have won an Emmy for it--if they had the Emmys back then. I don't know--who cares. Kent Smith is great."