Alice Adams

Alice Adams (1935)

Bazată pe romanul premiat al lui Booth Tarkington, această dramă comică urmărește o tânără din clasa muncitoare (Katharine Hepburn) în încercarea sa, fără succes, de a urca pe scara socială. Când îl întâlnește pe bogatul Arthur Russell (Fred MacMurray), acesta este amuzat de eforturile ei de a menține o fațadă de burghezie, iar ea este încântată când acceptă să ia cina la casa familiei ei. Lucrurile se clatină în pragul dezastrului, în timp ce clanul Adams încearcă frenetic să organizeze o seară cu cină rafinată.

Data lansării
1935-08-23
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (66)
Durată
1 h 39 min
Genuri
Romantic, Dramă
Regizor
George Stevens

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Alice Adams is a 1935 romantic drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Katharine Hepburn. It was made by RKO and produced by Pandro S. Berman. The screenplay was by Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner, and Jane Murfin. The film was adapted from the novel Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington. The music score was by Max Steiner and Roy Webb, and the cinematography by Robert De Grasse. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress.

Production

The 1935 film of Alice Adams is the second adaptation of the Tarkington novel. A silent film version had been made in 1923, directed by Rowland V. Lee.

Katharine Hepburn wanted George Cukor to direct the film, but Cukor was engaged in directing David Copperfield. Cukor advised her to choose William Wyler or George Stevens as director. Although Hepburn favored the German-born and Swiss-educated Wyler, the producer Pandro S. Berman favored the American George Stevens.

The plot of the film differs from the book Alice Adams in significant ways. Most importantly, the novel depicts Alice as permanently estranged from Russell. The original script by Dorothy Yost and Jane Murfin ended with Alice and Russell in love, but Stevens was so unhappy with the script and the ending that he, his friend Mortimer Offner, and Hepburn discarded most of it and rewrote it by using dialogue taken from the novel.

However, Berman and RKO executives wanted a happy ending in which Alice gets Russell. Stevens and Hepburn opposed the change. Berman enlisted the aid of Cukor, who agreed that the more realistic ending would be box-office poison and so the script was changed into allowing Russell to fall in love with Alice and to win her over.

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