Alice Adams

Alice Adams (1935) starring Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray. Directed by George Stevens. Based on a Booth Tarkington novel, this movie tells the story of a lower-middle-class girl named Alice (Hepburn) and her efforts to win the affections of a rather wealthy young man named Arthur (MacMurray). Hepburn is utterly charming in the title role, and the film is very funny in its own underplayed way. There's a whole side-plot about Alice's father and his ambitions to start a glue factory, but many plot threads are lost in the main story about the romance between Alice and Arthur. For a movie this old, it was quite engaging and entertaining. (Subtitles are available in English, as well as closed captions.) Grade: B