- Alice Adams (film)
Infobox Film
name = Alice Adams
caption = DVD Cover
director =George Stevens
producer =Pandro S. Berman
writer = Dorothy Yost
Mortimer Offner
Jane Murfin (adaptation)Booth Tarkington (novel)
starring =Katharine Hepburn
Fred MacMurray
Fred Stone
Evelyn Venable
Frank Albertson
Ann Shoemaker
Hedda Hopper Hattie McDaniel
music =Max Steiner Roy Webb
cinematography =Robert De Grasse editing =
Jane Loring
distributor =RKO
released =15 August 1935
runtime = 99 min
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
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followed_by =
amg_id = 1:1471~T0
imdb_id = 0026056"Alice Adams", also known as "Booth Tarkington's Alice Adams", is a 1935
romantic film remake made byRKO . It was directed byGeorge Stevens and produced byPandro S. Berman from ascreenplay byDorothy Yost ,Mortimer Offner adapted byJane Murfin from the novel, "Alice Adams", byBooth Tarkington . The music score was byMax Steiner andRoy Webb , and the cinematography byRobert De Grasse .The film starred
Katharine Hepburn as Alice Adams withFred MacMurray ,Fred Stone ,Evelyn Venable ,Frank Albertson ,Ann Shoemaker ,Hedda Hopper andHattie McDaniel .Plot
Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn) is the daughter of a family of modest means but she dreams of making her way in society and being accepted by the "better people." She meets the well-to-do Arthur Russell (Fred MacMurray) at a social gathering; he is charmed by her attempts at putting on airs and accepts her invitation to dine at the Adams' home. The meal is a disaster: Alice's parents (Fred Stone and Anne Shoemaker) are obviously way out of Russell's league, while the servant (Hattie McDaniel) hired for the occasion shows up very surly.
Cast
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Katharine Hepburn as Alice Adams
*Fred MacMurray as Arthur Russell
*Fred Stone as Mr. Adams
*Evelyn Venable as Mildred Palmer
*Frank Albertson as Walter Adams
*Ann Shoemaker as Mrs. Adams
*Charles Grapewin as Mr. Lamb
*Grady Sutton as Frank Dowling
*Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Palmer
*Jonathan Hale as Mr. Palmer
*Janet McLeod as Henrietta Lamb
*Virginia Howell as Mrs. Dowling
*Zeffie Tilbury as Mrs. Dresser
*Ella McKenzie as Ella Dowling
*Hattie McDaniel as MalenaAcademy Awards nominations
The film was nominated for two
Academy Awards for Best Picture and for Best Actress (Katharine Hepburn).Notes
* "Alice Adams" is a remake of the 1923 film based on the same novel, directed by
Rowland V. Lee , produced byKing Vidor and starringFlorence Vidor and Vernon Steele.
* Katharine Hepburn wantedWilliam Wyler to direct the film, but producer Pandro S. Berman favored George Stevens.
* RKO executives wantedRandolph Scott for the Fred MacMurray role, but he was involved in the production of "So Red the Rose" (1935).References
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