Alice Adams

6.6 1935 1h 39m United States of America

Romance Drama

In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?

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Twenty-two and wonderful ... as Booth Tarkington's loveliest heroine! In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?

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Directors

George Stevens

Writers

Dorothy Yost, Jane Murfin, Mortimer Offner, Booth Tarkington

Cast

Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable, Frank Albertson, Ann Shoemaker, Charley Grapewin, Grady Sutton, Hedda Hopper, Jonathan Hale, Hattie McDaniel, Zeffie Tilbury, Joe Gilbert

Production

RKO Radio Pictures

Languages

English

Countries

United States of America