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Alice Adams

6.7 99 mins Romance   Drama   1935
RKO Radio Pictures  
Director(s): George Stevens

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?

Casts of Alice Adams

Katharine Hepburn

as Alice Adams

Fred MacMurray

as Arthur Russell

Fred Stone

as Virgil Adams

Evelyn Venable

as Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer

Frank Albertson

as Walter Adams

Ann Shoemaker

as Mrs. Adams

Charley Grapewin

as J. A. Lamb

Grady Sutton

as Frank Dowling

Hedda Hopper

as Mrs. Palmer

Jonathan Hale

as Mr. Palmer

Hattie McDaniel

as Malena Burns - Maid Serving Dinner

Zeffie Tilbury

as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)

Joe Gilbert

as Party Guest (uncredited)

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