Alice Adams (1935)
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The misadventures of two social-climbing women in small town America.
Jan 1, 1935 Wide
Jan 7, 2003
Turner Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Katharine Hepburn
Alice Adams -
Fred MacMurray
Arthur Russell -
Fred Stone
Mr. Adams -
Evelyn Venable
Mildred Palmer -
Frank Albertson
Walter Adams -
Ann Shoemaker
Mrs. Adams -
Charles Grapewin
Mr. Lamb -
Grady Sutton
Frank Dowling -
Hedda Hopper
Mrs. Palmer -
Jonathan Hale
Mr. Palmer -
Janet McLeod
Henrietta Lamb -
Virginia Howell
Mrs. Dowling -
Zeffie Tilbury
Mrs. Dresser -
Ella McKenzie
Ella Dowling -
Hattie McDaniel
Malena -
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That George Stevens' direction captures the wistfulness of Katharine Hepburn's superb histrionism, and yet has not sacrificed audience values at the altar of too much drabness and prosaic realism, is an achievement of no small order.
Top CriticStevens's talent for stepping away from the plotline and creating intimate, casual, and naturalistic moments is given plenty of opportunity here, as it would not be in his later superproductions.
An oddly exciting blend of tenderness, comedy and realistic despair, it touches life intimately at many points during its account of a lonely girl in a typical American small town.
Hepburn is magnificent as the small-town social climber, although the script so softens Booth Tarkington's novel.
Stevens' deadpan-humane approach dilutes the acid of Booth Tarkington's social critique
The pathetic, social-climbing heroine of Booth Tarkington's novel was never better played than by Hepburn, who brought a fierce determination, clutching coyness, and tragic optimism to the part.
George Stevens' poignant adaptation of the Tarkington famous novel is one of the few Ameriacn films of its era to examine the impact of social class in a realistic way.
There's much humor that comes out of the believable characters portrayed and the pain they suffer from their plight.
Hepburn is real reason to seek this one out
Hepburn is heartwarming
Alice Adams would be forgotten if it weren't for Hepburn's typically charismatic performance as the woman who turns social climbing into an art form.
The flaws stand out like bad lawn jockeys.
Alice Adams (1935) is RKO's touching, effectively poignant portrayal of small-town, mid-Western American pretenses
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