Alice Adams Script

Script by:Jane Murfin (Screenplay), Mortimer Offner (Screenplay), Booth Tarkington (Novel), Dorothy Yost (Screenplay)
Directed by:George Stevens
Year:1935

Plot: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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