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Alice Adams(1935)
Status: Released
Date: 1935-08-23
67%
60 Votes
Time: 1h 39m
Twenty-two and wonderful ... as Booth Tarkington's loveliest heroine!
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?
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $342,000.00
Revenue: $770,000.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Alice Adams
Top 10 Billed Cast
Katharine Hepburn
Alice Adams
Fred MacMurray
Arthur Russell
Fred Stone
Virgil Adams
Evelyn Venable
Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer
Frank Albertson
Walter Adams
Ann Shoemaker
Mrs. Adams
Charley Grapewin
J. A. Lamb
Grady Sutton
Frank Dowling
Hedda Hopper
Mrs. Palmer
Jonathan Hale
Mr. Palmer
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