Alice Adams (1935)

6.6 | Aug 23, 1935 (US) | Romance, Drama | 01:39

small town inventor gambling debt business idea business start-up young love dinner party socially awkward awkward situation nagging wife dinner guest social climber poor pretending to be rich ambitious wife

Budget: 342 000 | Revenue: 770 000

Twenty-two and wonderful ... as Booth Tarkington's loveliest heroine!

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?