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    1935 · Comedy drama · 1h 39m

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  1. Alice Adams is a 1935 romantic drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Katharine Hepburn. It was made by RKO and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner, and Jane Murfin. The film was adapted from the novel Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington.

  2. Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee [citation needed] and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens.

  3. Alice Adams: Directed by George Stevens. With Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable. A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.

  4. Based on the award-winning novel by Booth Tarkington, this comedic drama follows a young working-class woman (Katharine Hepburn) as she attempts, unsuccessfully,...

  5. Alice Adams won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1922 making its author, Booth Tarkington a two-time winner. It is a satire of social manners and classism.

  6. Alice Adams, novel by Booth Tarkington, published in 1921. The story of the disintegration of a lower-middle-class family in a small Midwestern town, Alice Adams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for best novel in 1922. A social climber, the title character is ashamed of her unsuccessful family.

  7. A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father. In the small town of South Renford, Alice Adams comes from a working class background, although she aspires to be among the upper class.

  8. Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn received an Oscar-nomination as a working-class small-town girl with social ambitions who falls in love with wealthy playboy Fred MacMurray. 270 IMDb 6.9 1 h 39 min 1935. X-Ray 13+. Comedy · Drama · Charming · Emotional. Available to rent or buy.

  9. www.enotes.com › topics › alice-adams-booth-tarkingtonAlice Adams Summary - eNotes.com

    American novelist and short-story writer. Complete summary of Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Alice Adams.

  10. Jul 1, 2008 · Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "high society" who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are...

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