Alice Adams
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- Drama
- Comedy
- Romance
Overview
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?
Keywords
- inventor
- small town
- business start-up
- dinner party
- gambling debt
- socially awkward
- young love
- social climber
- business idea
- awkward situation
- nagging wife
- dinner guest
- poor pretending to be rich
- ambitious wife
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 23, 1935
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Cast
- Katharine Hepburn,Fred MacMurray,Fred Stone,Evelyn Venable,Frank Albertson,Ann Shoemaker,Charley Grapewin,Grady Sutton,Hedda Hopper,Jonathan Haleand 3 more
- Director
- George Stevens
- Producer
- Pandro S. Berman
- Cinematography
- Robert De Grasse
- Music
- Roy Webb,Max Steiner
- Budget
- $342,000
- Revenue
- $770,000
- IMDb
- tt0026056