Alice Adams
- Director: George Stevens
- Writer: Booth Tarkington; Dorothy Yost
- Producer: Pandro S. Berman
CGiii Comment
A dreadful film that - briefly - features Hollywood's staple sissy character...a trifle pathetic.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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?
Cast & Characters
Katharine Hepburn as Alice Adams;
Fred MacMurray as Arthur Russell;
Fred Stone as Virgil Adams;
Evelyn Venable as Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer;
Frank Albertson as Walter Adams;
Ann Shoemaker as Mrs. Adams;
Charley Grapewin as J. A. Lamb;
Grady Sutton as Frank Dowling;
Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Palmer;
Jonathan Hale as Mr. Palmer;
Hattie McDaniel as Malena Burns, Maid Serving Dinner;
Walter Brennan;
Brooks Benedict as Henrietta's Dance Partner;
Harry Bowen as Laborer Putting Up Sign;
Monte Carter as Waiter at Restaurant