Alice Adams

Alice Adams

1935 "Twenty-two and wonderful ... as Booth Tarkington's loveliest heroine!"
Alice Adams
Alice Adams

Alice Adams

6.9 | 1h39m | en | 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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6.9 | 1h39m | en | Drama , Comedy , Romance | More Info
Released: October. 16,1935 | Released Producted By: RKO Radio Pictures , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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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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Katharine Hepburn , Fred MacMurray , Fred Stone

Director

Van Nest Polglase

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Hmaziba Alice Adam's' you may see connection between one scene to another, the lover end up at the garden and show their love by exchanging flowers, that means love has been dominated by flowers. For example "Alice Adam's" Alice went garden to pick flower and there was index said, "don't pick the flower" but it was the only flower and she picked up.For example Alice Adams you may see one of index shot that says do not touch it, the camera doll in to Alice then quickly pan to extreme of index sign.However, Alice Adam's edited by Jane Loring in this movie several connected with transition and most transition was "wipe" to connect from one scene to another or one shot to another shots. In conclusion, Drama films are serious presentation or stories with setting or life situation that are portray realistic characters in conflict with individual character or both. This movie contain very famous actress Katherine Hepburn she did nice and wonderful touch to audience.
preppy-3 Drama in which Katharine Hepburn plays a poor young woman who dreams of bigger and better things--but she's stuck with a pushy mother, an ill father and an obnoxious brother. At a dance a young rich man (Fred MacMurray!) meets and falls for her. She falls for him too but his family would never accept her and she can't get over the feeling that she's not good enough for him.Well-done if incredibly dated drama. It's a very early Hepburn role and she's magnificent in it. She was justly nominated for an Academy Award for this (Bette Davis won for "Dangerous"). MacMurray is good too and it's fun to see both of them so young and full of life. The main problem though is Hepburn. She's TOO good for her role. You see her struggling to get ahead and it's heart-breaking. The dinner party sequence at the end is particularly hard to sit through. Also Hattie McDaniel plays a maid and is treated horribly but that is (sadly) a sign of its time. It also has a bunch of happy endings that I didn't buy for one second. Still this is well worth seeing.
SnoopyStyle The Adams family is struggling while father is ill. Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn) is the young daughter and mother sees father as a failure. Older brother Walter is a gambler and an embarrassment for hanging out with blacks. Mother pushes Walter to escort Alice to a big dance given by Henrietta of the wealthy Lambs. Father's employer Mr. Lamb still pays him despite his lengthy illness. Alice meets wealthy Arthur Russell (Fred MacMurray) at the dance who likes her despite her lack of status. Mother pushes father to take the glue formula he developed for Mr. Lamb and start a risky new glue factory. Mr. Lamb is angered by father's leaving. Mother and Alice try to put on airs by throwing a lavish dinner for Russell but it goes all wrong.Katharine Hepburn is a little wrong to be this insecure young thing. Nevertheless, she makes it work and is the best aspect of the movie. The parents' arguing keeps them from being too funny. Fred MacMurray is a bit stiff but Hepburn acts her heart out.
David Allen "Alice Adams" (1935) Is Another Booth Tarkington Soap Opera Movie With Kate Hepburn Miscast, Sadly.Hepburn won the Best Actress Academy Award for Morning Glory (1933) playing an upwardly mobile wanna-be newly arrived to NYC stage actress who comes out a winner in the end.Before that, we saw Hepburn in the 1932 version of A Bill Of Divorcement (1932), a movie which, like Alice Adams (1935) had been both a stage play and a silent movie more than a decade before the belated Hepburn versions of the 1930's. In "Divorcement," Hepburn plays a snappy, perky, attractive socialite young woman (a débutante type) with a handsome fiancé boyfriend who looks terrific in the tuxedo he always wears to the English mansion where Kate lives with her family.The goofy Bill Of Divorcement (1932) story forces Hepburn to depart from the ways of a smart girl, and start thinking and doing dumb things.....just pay attention to Hepburn as presented at the start of the story....and ignore the unfolding story which the Hepburn character gets swept into...not her fault!Soooooooooo....in "Divorcement" (1932), Kate's first movie, she plays a rich girl who is smart, attractive, and interesting. She got third billing after main star John Barrymore and lead female star, Billie Burke...we see Kate Hepburn as a newcomer actress (age 25 in 1932)rising dazzlingly.Then comes Morning Glory (1933) where she is also a star rising dazzlingly, but not living in a mansion and part of the gentry as she makes her way into our hearts. Poor little rich girl who makes it.Then comes Alice Adams (1935) which casts Kate (to alliterate a bit!) as a loser poor girl with slob family members who increase her problems. Kate keeps smiling all the while, but sheds a tear from time to time, recognizing as she does she's a loser.Well.........Kate Hepburn is no loser and never was. She was miscast in the Alice Adams (1935) soap opera, and thankfully this was the last time.After Alice Adams (1935), the real Kate Hepburn emerges and triumphs every time in Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Stage Door (1937), Holiday (1938), and her crowning glory stage play turned very good movie, The Philadelphia Story (1940), the last two scripts written by the brilliant Philip Barry.Young, less than 35 years old Katherine Hepburn's best movies started with A Bill Of Divorcement (1932) and continued without interruption with Sylvia Scarlett (1935) through The Philadelphia Story (1940), with Morning Glory (1933) an interesting exception which doesn't fit with the other movies, but is an OK movie.Alice Adams (1935) doesn't make it.Sob sister Booth Tarkington didn't provide a good story, as he also didn't for poor friendless (in 1942) Orson Welles who had trouble with Tarkington's soap opera dysfunctional rich family story, The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).--------------- Written by Tex Allen, SAG movie actor. See WWW.IMDb.Me/TexAllen for more about Tex. Email Tex at TexAllen@Rocketmail.Com