Alice Adams Summary
Director: George Stevens
Genres: Drama, Romance
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Katharine_Hepburn stars as Booth_Tarkington's would-be society belle Alice Adams. The product of a family of modest means, Alice nonetheless dreams of being accepted by the "better people." Luck of luck, she meets well-to-do young Fred MacMurray at a social gathering; he is charmed by her pathetic attempts at putting on airs and accepts her invitation to dine at the Adams home. The meal is a disaster: Alice's parents (Fred_Stone and Anne_Shoemaker) are obviously way out of MacMurray's league, while the servant (Hattie McDaniel) that the family hired for the occasion shows up drunk and very surly. Alice Adams was the first major directorial assignment for George_Stevens, as well as one of the few Katharine_Hepburn vehicles of the 1930s to score a hit with the public. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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