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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.
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.
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.
Based on the award-winning novel by Booth Tarkington, this comedic drama follows a young working-class woman (Katharine Hepburn) as she attempts, unsuccessfully,...
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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.
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 tempered by the realities of her situation, which she learns to accept with grace and style.
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.
Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn) is a small town girl of humble origins dreaming of a better life in George Stevens' captivating 1935 social drama, Alice Adams. With a father on medical leave from his lowly clerk job, Alice has few of the material advantages of the wealthier, socially connected girls in South Renford, Indiana.
Originally published in 1921, this bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was adapted into film twice, and its heroine, the sparkling Alice Adams, still resonates with readers today. With a new foreword by Anne Edwards.
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