Movie · 1935
Alice Adams
“Twenty-two and wonderful ... as Booth Tarkington's loveliest heroine!”
Released 23 August 1935 99 min Romance / Drama More from 1935 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?
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How old were they?
Zeffie Tilbury
as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
Charley Grapewin
as J. A. Lamb
Fred Stone
as Virgil Adams
Hedda Hopper
as Mrs. Palmer
Ann Shoemaker
as Mrs. Adams
Jonathan Hale
as Mr. Palmer
Hattie McDaniel
as Malena Burns - Maid Serving Dinner
Joe Gilbert
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Grady Sutton
as Frank Dowling
Katharine Hepburn
as Alice Adams
Fred MacMurray
as Arthur Russell
Frank Albertson
as Walter Adams
Evelyn Venable
as Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer
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The numbers
50years between the oldest and youngest billed
71Zeffie Tilbury — oldest on the call sheet
21Evelyn Venable — youngest billed
42average age of the credited cast