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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.
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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 and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens.
- United States
- Booth Tarkington
- June 1921
- Doubleday, Page & Co.
Alice Adams is a 1935 film based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, starring Katharine Hepburn as a working-class girl who tries to pass as upper class. The film was nominated for two Oscars and features Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, and Hattie McDaniel in supporting roles.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- George Stevens
- 1935-11-13
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Alice Adams is a film adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel about a working-class girl who tries to impress a wealthy man. The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, and Fred Stone, and has a 94% Tomatometer and a 71% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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- Katharine Hepburn
- George Stevens
- Comedy, Drama
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.
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Author 3 books 5,856 followers. September 6, 2021. This, the fourth Pulitzer winner, and the second winner by Booth Tarkington, is the tale of the ambitious Alice Adams who tries to use good humor and honesty to rise above her modest station in life.
Alice Adams. Summaries. 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.
