Charming Alcott love story makes debut on TV Sunday

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19970405
Author:SUSAN KING

HOLLYWOOD This week's CBS Sunday movie is by one of America's best-loved authors, who only happens to have been dead for 109 years.

Louisa May Alcott's The Inheritance, which was published by Dutton on Valentine's Day, was written in 1849 by Alcott, then 17. The author of such beloved classics as Little Women and Little Men never published the slight, charming tale of a former orphan who discovers love and her birthright while serving as a companion in an aristocratic family.

The lush television adaptation, airing from 8 to 10 p.m. Sunday on WBBM-Channel 2, stars Meredith Baxter, Tom ...

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