Alice Adams

About 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.

George Stevens's Alice Adams is a 1935 romance film. At 99 minutes long, it arrived in August 1935.

Its themes are inventor, young love, gambling debt, and dinner party.

Katharine Hepburn stars as Alice Adams, Fred MacMurray as Arthur Russell, Fred Stone as Virgil Adams, and Evelyn Venable as Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer. The screenplay is by Dorothy Yost and Jane Murfin. American members can watch it on YouTube TV.

Edward Scissorhands, Notting Hill, and Star Trek: First Contact make useful companions to Alice Adams, all filed under small town and awkward situation. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 65 votes.