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1 de abr. de 2022 · Alice Adams (1935) is RKO's touching, effectively poignant portrayal of small-town, mid-Western American pretenses in the early 1900s. The film's screenplay (by Dorothy Yost and Mortimer Offner) was based on Jane Murfin's adaptation of Booth Tarkington's 1921 prize-winning novel of the same name about a girl in a mid-sized Indiana city.
Alice Adams. Approved · 1935 · Comedia · 1 h. 39 m. 7,08 (404 votos) Favoritos. Puntúa esta película: Sinopsis: En una familia de clase humilde, el padre y el hijo están satisfechos y se conforman con trabajar en una tienda; en cambio, la madre y la hija no dejan de urdir toda clase de estratagemas para intentar subir socialmente.
1 de sept. de 2006 · His work Alice Adams also won the Pulitzer in 1921. Tarkington produced a total of 171 short stories, 21 novels, 9 novellas, and 19 plays along with a number of movie scripts, radio dramas, and even illustrations over the course of a career that lasted from 1899 until his death in 1946.
Alice Adams is a 1935 American romantic drama movie directed by George Stevens and is the second adaption of the 1921 novel of the same name by Booth Tarkington. It stars Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Frank Albertson, Hedda Hopper, Hattie McDaniel, Jonathan Hale, Evelyn Venable and RKO Radio Pictures.
15 de abr. de 2019 · As one critic wrote, “she depicts with sensitivity and intelligence the contemporary woman’s search for self-identity, independence, and stable relationships with both men and women.”. This search is especially evident in Adams’s bestselling book Superior Women, one of her more critically acclaimed novels. The four women in this story ...
Purchase Alice Adams on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn ("The Philadelphia Story," "The African Queen") received an Oscar-nomination as a working-class small-town girl with social ambitions who falls in love with wealthy playboy Fred MacMurray ("Double Indemnity," TV's "My Three Sons").
Katharine Hepburn stars as Booth Tarkington's would-be society belle Alice Adams. The product of a family of modest means, Alice nonetheless dreams of being accepted by the "better people." Luck of luck, she meets well-to-do young Fred MacMurray at a social gathering; he is charmed by her pathetic attempts at putting on airs and accepts her invitation to dine at the Adams home.
