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Alice Adams

1935, Movie, NR, 99 mins

Alice Adams: Review

The pathetic, social-climbing heroine of Booth Tarkington's novel was never better played than by Katharine Hepburn, who brought a fierce determination, clutching coyness, and tragic optimism to the part. She plays Alice Adams, who lives only a block or two from the wrong side of the tracks, but who pretends that she and her family enjoy the status of her wealthy peer group — a pretense that grows into a dangerous conviction. Read the complete review for Alice Adams

Alice Adams: Cast & Details

Year: 1935
Rated NR

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Katharine Hepburn: Alice Adams
Fred MacMurray: Arthur Russell
Fred Stone: Mr. Adams
Evelyn Venable: Mildred Palmer
Frank Albertson: Walter Adams
Ann Shoemaker: Mrs. Adams

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Alice Adams: TV Guide News

Some years ago I saw a ... | Movie News | 9/1/2005
Question: Some years ago I saw a Lifetime TV-movie with Dana Delany (the reason I stopped channel-surfing) in which she and her husband adopt his sister's children when the sister and her husband die on the same day, she of cancer and he in a commuter train accident. A few years later I was reading Kurt Vonnegut's TimeQuake, in which he describes adopting his sister's children under identical circumstances. He also mentioned that one of the adopted boys works in TV, so can you tell me whether this movie was written by said adopted Vonnegut child? Answer: The Dana Delany movie you saw was A Promise to Keep (1990) and is about writer Kurt Vonnegut 's adoption of his orphaned nephews. But it wasn't written by one of the children; it was based on the memoir Ange read more

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