Alice Adams
Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams is a moving movie about the misadventures of two pretentious social-climbing women in a small town in America. Eventually, one found a modest and decent man of her love. Let’s come to the movie
2 May 1885, Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
30 August 1908, Kankakee, Illinois, USA
10 January 1891, Brooklyn, New York, USA
23 September 1902, Berlin, Germany
21 March 1891, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
20 November 1863, London, England, UK
20 December 1869, Xenia, Ohio, USA
October 2, 1898 in San Biagio, Italy
12 May 1907, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
19 August 1873, Longmont, Colorado, USA
5 April 1906, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
February 6, 1896 in New York City, New York, USA
31 March 1905, Pennsylvania, USA
2 February 1909, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, USA
10 June 1895, Wichita, Kansas, USA
February 27, 1903 in Chester County, Tennessee, USA
18 October 1913, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
15 August 1900, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
October 23, 2004
Hepburn is real reason to seek this one outNovember 13, 2007
Stevens's talent for stepping away from the plotline and creating intimate, casual, and naturalistic moments is given plenty of opportunity here, as it would not be in his later superproductions.November 13, 2007
The pathetic, social-climbing heroine of Booth Tarkington's novel was never better played than by Hepburn, who brought a fierce determination, clutching coyness, and tragic optimism to the part.January 11, 2004
Hepburn is heartwarmingJuly 28, 2007
George Stevens' poignant adaptation of the Tarkington famous novel is one of the few Ameriacn films of its era to examine the impact of social class in a realistic way.November 13, 2007
That George Stevens' direction captures the wistfulness of Katharine Hepburn's superb histrionism, and yet has not sacrificed audience values at the altar of too much drabness and prosaic realism, is an achievement of no small order.March 25, 2006
An oddly exciting blend of tenderness, comedy and realistic despair, it touches life intimately at many points during its account of a lonely girl in a typical American small town.August 10, 2005
There's much humor that comes out of the believable characters portrayed and the pain they suffer from their plight.February 28, 2002
The flaws stand out like bad lawn jockeys.April 17, 2011
Stevens' deadpan-humane approach dilutes the acid of Booth Tarkington's social critiqueMay 24, 2003
Alice Adams would be forgotten if it weren't for Hepburn's typically charismatic performance as the woman who turns social climbing into an art form.February 09, 2006
Hepburn is magnificent as the small-town social climber, although the script so softens Booth Tarkington's novel.