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Alice Adams (1935)

Alice Adams (1935)

Drama Romance

Twenty-two and wonderful ... as Booth Tarkington's loveliest heroine!

Release Date: 1935, August 23
Directors: George Stevens
Countries: United States of America
Production: RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Frank Albertson, Hattie McDaniel, Charley Grapewin, Evelyn Venable, Hedda Hopper, Joe Gilbert, Fred MacMurray, Katharine Hepburn, Grady Sutton, Jonathan Hale, Zeffie Tilbury, Ann Shoemaker

Overview:

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?

Keywords:

inventor small town gambling debt business start-up young love socially awkward dinner party awkward situation dinner guest social climber business idea nagging wife poor pretending to be rich ambitious wife