Alice Adams (film)

Alice Adams is a 1935 romantic film made by RKO, starring Katharine Hepburn. It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner, and Jane Murfin. The film was adapted from the novel Alice Adams, by Booth Tarkington. The music score was by Max Steiner and Roy Webb, and the cinematography by Robert De Grasse. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress.

Alice Adams Katharine Hepburn is the youngest daughter of the Adams family. Her father Fred Stone is an invalid employed as a clerk in a factory owned by Mr. Lamb Charles Grapewin, who has kept Adams on salary for years despite his lengthy illness. Her mother Ann Shoemaker is embittered by her husbands lack of ambition and upset by the snubs her daughter endures because of their poverty. Alices older brother, Walter Frank Albertson, is a gambler who cannot hold a job and who associates with African Americans which, given the time period in which the film is set, is considered a major social embarrassment. As the film begins, Alice attends a dance given by the wealthy Mildred Palmer Evelyn Venable. She has no date, and is escorted to the occasion by Walter. Alice is a social climber like her mother, and engages in socially inappropriate behavior and conversation in an attempt to impress others. At the dance, Alice meets wealthy Arthur Russell Fred MacMurray, who is charmed by her despite her poverty.Alices mother nags her husband into quitting his job and pouring his life savings into a glue factory. Mr. Lamb ostracizes Mr. Adams from society, believing that Adams stole the glue formula from him. Alice is the subject of cruel town gossip, which Russell ignores. ........

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