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Alice Adams (1935) is RKO's touching, effectively poignant portrayal of small-town, mid-Western American pretenses in the early 1900s. The film's screenplay (by Dorothy Yost and Mortimer Offner) was based on Jane Murfin's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's 1921 prize-winning novel of the same name about a girl in a mid-sized Indiana city.
Purchase Alice Adams on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn ("The Philadelphia Story," "The African Queen") received an Oscar-nomination as a working-class small-town girl with social ambitions who falls in love with wealthy playboy Fred MacMurray ("Double Indemnity," TV's "My Three Sons").
10 de dic. de 2019 · ALICE ADAMS Portrait of a Writer By Carol Sklenicka. By Blake Bailey. An admiring colleague said of the writer Alice Adams that she “threw a different kind of light on women and what they want, ...
12 de may. de 2015 · Alice Adams is a lovely genteel film filled with a delicate blend of humorous and heart-wrenching scenes. Stevens, and the entire cast, managed to create a film with just the right mixture of highly amusing comedy and captivating social drama. Strains of a beautiful violin melody by Max Steiner underscore the emotional moments adding just the ...
23 de mar. de 2003 · Taken from the Booth Tarkington novel, Alice Adams tells the story of a social climbing young woman and her attempts at fitting in with the wealthy citizens of her small town in nineteen-twenties America. Katharine Hepburn is luminous as the innocent title character, gushing out her lines while putting on a brave face to the world in order to deny her families' lack of money and social position.
Alice Adams began life as a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington. It was adapted into a film in 1923, and then adapted again into a better-remembered 1935 film that was directed by George Stevens and starred Katharine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray.. Alice Adams is a young woman living in a small town somewhere in Flyover Country.Her father Virgil is a clerk in a factory owned by Mr. Lamb—or he used ...
1 de jul. de 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 tempered by the realities of her situation, which she learns to accept with grace and style. Alice's resiliency of spirit makes her one of Booth Tarkington's most compelling characters.
