Alice Adams
Aug 23 1935
•2h 39m
•Romance, Drama
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?
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Katharine Hepburn
Alice Adams
Fred MacMurray
Arthur Russell
Fred Stone
Virgil Adams
Evelyn Venable
Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer
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