Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

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Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Hmaziba Alice Adam's' you may see connection between one scene to another, the lover end up at the garden and show their love by exchanging flowers, that means love has been dominated by flowers. For example "Alice Adam's" Alice went garden to pick flower and there was index said, "don't pick the flower" but it was the only flower and she picked up.For example Alice Adams you may see one of index shot that says do not touch it, the camera doll in to Alice then quickly pan to extreme of index sign.However, Alice Adam's edited by Jane Loring in this movie several connected with transition and most transition was "wipe" to connect from one scene to another or one shot to another shots. In conclusion, Drama films are serious presentation or stories with setting or life situation that are portray realistic characters in conflict with individual character or both. This movie contain very famous actress Katherine Hepburn she did nice and wonderful touch to audience.

dbdumonteil There are similarities between "Alice Adams" and Stevens ' later classic " a place in the sun".In both movies, the hero(ine) wants to climb the social ladder.The scene of the ball introduces a guest who looks like an intruder in this company of rich kids and fussy old biddies who most of the time ignore him/her;but while Monty Clift's George/Clyde remains passive,bashful ,lonesome and ends up in the pool room ,Alice Adams is a go-getter,trying to pick up wealthy guys ;both finally are noticed by the king(Fred McMurray) and the queen (Liz Taylor) of the fetes.Both are ashamed of the milieu in which they were nurtured : George/Clyde 's preachers family is depicted in lavish details by Theodore Dreiser but hardly appears in Stevens' movie,whilst Arthur is invited for a dinner in Alice's house ;this long scene,the most memorable in the whole movie is the ball sequence in reverse :a chic young man in a rather crummy house ,the best place being its porch.Alice tries and tries to make her dwelling a refined place with caviar toasts ,gourmet (En Français Dans Le Texte/"Ris De Veau"- calves' sweetbreads )dishes and melting ice -cream (just like Shelley Winters' in " a place in the sun" ).The harder she tries ,the harder she fails :Dad and Hattie McDaniel as the clumsy servant cannot delude for long .Actually ,all the household world revolves around Alice ;dad and mom get out of their way to secure their daughter's happiness,forgetting poor brother Walt;and before the final father/boss confrontation,the heroine appears as a selfish,self-centered girl ;she does not realize her meek daddy's sacrifices ,she appears as frivolous as Mildred.It's only when she acknowledges that it's not her parents' fault but hers that we really side with her.Alice was not herself,she played a part (doesn't she say she would be an excellent actress?) just like the stuck -up things Arthur generally meets .Hence the denouement .Katherine Hepburn is a great as ever and the supporting cast is up to scratch.My favorite is Frank Albertson's Walter ,happy with his lot in life ,and playing dice with the servants.

Applause Meter Katherine Hepburn plays Alice Adams a foolish, annoying, young woman determined to be accepted by the town snobs who shun her. What goal in life could be a more worthy one than to focus on being accepted by those whose lives are measured on shallow values?! And poor Alice, her plight is a tortured one in which the movie audience is asked to join in on and root for her victory. Are we to sympathize with Alice because she is forced to wear an unfashionable, two-year old dress to a society dance? Katherine Hepburn certainly gives this performance the full benefit of her forceful personality, babbling incessantly and pretentiously to all those around, her finishing school accent only aggrandizing the assault. Her mother, played by Anne Shoemaker, certainly shares Alice's pretensions, bemoaning her daughter's social ostracization from the country club set, berating her husband Virgil, (Fred Stone), with shrewish insistency that he is a business and social failure. As far as Mrs. Adams is concerned, Mr. Adams' shortcomings have selfishly doomed their daughter to an undistinguished middle class life. Not that Mr. Adams isn't asking for what he gets; he's a childish, petulant man who wears his ignorance of the world like a medal of honor. Fred MacMurray is the socially acceptable suitor Arthur Russell who takes an interest in Alice, although why he is attracted to this strident girl trying too hard to impress, is a mystery. MacMurray, a bland presence in any movie he's in, basically portrays his character as a man in silent contemplation of a theater piece he's been given a front row center seat to take in, or as a hapless boob suffering in non-comprehension of what's going on. Whatever, he's just a prop put carefully in place.Hattie McDaniel has a small but showy role as the housemaid tasked with preparing and "waiting at table" to the assembled Adams' and their dinner guest for the evening, beau Arthur Russell. She's sloppy, dumb, inept and totally bereft of social poise. Mrs. Adams is so demanding that the maid (who is never referred to by name) becomes so flustered, she falls down the basement stairs to the dismay of Mr. Adams. He just hopes that when the servant took her fall, she didn't break any of his things!This movie was based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, a Pulitzer Prize wining author whose writing and literary glory has now faded and with reason. Tarkington came from political family, wealthy, conservative businessmen with a bona fide WASP pedigree. His preoccupations were the circumscribed environs of small town Midwest life---the social stratification, the importance of wealth and the petty world of class distinction. Tarkington doesn't condemn this elitist dominance; he legitimatizes societal differentiation determined by material distinction as irrevocable and correct. You just got to feel sorry for people like Alice, and families like the Adams clan. They're just pathetic nobodies. This movie plays an old tune out good and loud with all false cords and superficial sentiment. It's a real "antique" and not of the valuable kind.

dean-613-217228 Katharine looks beautiful and, considering she was supposed to have no money, had beautiful clothes. That is not enough reason to watch the movie. It is a sad, depressing tale, too reminiscent of one's own teen years to be entertaining, in my opinion.Perhaps this would be considered a spoiler, so I checked the box - I started watching because Drew Barrymore talked about how touching it was and how funny the scene with Hattie McDaniel was. I disagree. It was just pitiful all the way through.Okay, not all the way through. I gave up after the endless and horrifying dinner scene. If you want to watch people bicker, invite your family over for dinner and bring up the old days. I am sure they will oblige.