Alice Adams

Alice Adams

99 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Aug. 23, 1935

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?

Alice Adams

99 mins | Drama, Comedy, Romance | Aug. 23, 1935

Alice Adams
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?
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers RKO Radio Pictures
Original title Alice Adams
Directors George Stevens
Writers Dorothy Yost, Booth Tarkington, Mortimer Offner, Jane Murfin

Cast

Katharine Hepburn

as Alice Adams

Fred MacMurray

as Arthur Russell

Fred Stone

as Virgil Adams

Evelyn Venable

as Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer

Frank Albertson

as Walter Adams

Ann Shoemaker

as Mrs. Adams

Charley Grapewin

as J. A. Lamb

Grady Sutton

as Frank Dowling

Hedda Hopper

as Mrs. Palmer

Jonathan Hale

as Mr. Palmer

Hattie McDaniel

as Malena Burns - Maid Serving Dinner

Zeffie Tilbury

as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)