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6.9/10
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A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 1 win & 3 nominations total
Hattie McDaniel
- Malena
- (as Hattie McDaniels)
Brooks Benedict
- Henrietta's Dance Partner
- (uncredited)
Harry Bowen
- Laborer Putting Up Sign
- (uncredited)
Steve Carruthers
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Monte Carter
- Waiter at Restaurant
- (uncredited)
George Ford
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Joe Gilbert
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThough Bette Davis won the 1935 Academy Award/Oscar for Dangerous (1935) beating out Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams (1935), Davis was noted for saying more than once that she didn't deserve the award that year and that the one who did was Katharine Hepburn.
- GoofsWhen Alice walks with Arthur toward her house for the first time, a woman watering her shrubs can be seen and a letter carrier walks up, then back down her porch steps twice. The background scene repeats itself, letter carrier, woman setting down hose, etc. The letter carrier approaches Alice moments later where she then has to shamefully admit to Arthur that this is, indeed, her house that she is in front of. Likely a rear projection scene that was duplicated.
- Quotes
Mrs. Adams: Malena fell down the cellar stairs!
Virgil Adams: Did she break any of our things?
- ConnectionsFeatured in George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)
Featured review
This is an often under-rated film, and nowadays would certainly have been completely forgotten but for Katharine Hepburn's presence. As a satirical view of the 1920s filmed in the mid 1930s it feels somewhat dated. But not Hepburn's performance. This is is among the best of her RKO contract movies. Her innocence, her (modest) social pretension, her search for love, they all ring verosimilar - if not entirely true to life. And the celebrated window scene with tears and rain and sobs being one with Alice's feelings is far more than just 'clever'. Hepburn fans will like it. Others might very well follow along.
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- Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams
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- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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