I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Drama in which Katharine Hepburn plays a poor young woman who dreams of bigger and better things--but she's stuck with a pushy mother, an ill father and an obnoxious brother. At a dance a young rich man (Fred MacMurray!) meets and falls for her. She falls for him too but his family would never accept her and she can't get over the feeling that she's not good enough for him.Well-done if incredibly dated drama. It's a very early Hepburn role and she's magnificent in it. She was justly nominated for an Academy Award for this (Bette Davis won for "Dangerous"). MacMurray is good too and it's fun to see both of them so young and full of life. The main problem though is Hepburn. She's TOO good for her role. You see her struggling to get ahead and it's heart-breaking. The dinner party sequence at the end is particularly hard to sit through. Also Hattie McDaniel plays a maid and is treated horribly but that is (sadly) a sign of its time. It also has a bunch of happy endings that I didn't buy for one second. Still this is well worth seeing.

Small Town U.S.A. has its society, and desperate to be a part of it, lower middle class girl Katharine Hepburn crashes it every chance she gets. Her mother (Ann Shoemaker), even more social climbing than her, sends Hepburn with her very uninterested brother (Frank Albertson) to an upper class soirée where she meets the handsome Fred MacMurray and begins putting on airs to make herself something she is not. This film, based upon a 1920's Booth Tarkington story set before the depression, was a late depression era look at how one family faced despair (certainly not with much dignity), but it is obviously not Alice's fault, something we learn from watching her with her seemingly lazy papa (Fred Stone in a brilliant performance) who is constantly being browbeaten by his wife. Evelyn Venable and Hedda Hopper represent the upper class versions of Hepburn and Shoemaker who look on them as sort of necessary evils, simply because they've lived around them all of their lives and basically have no choice. Stone reveals his character's true values in a scene with his former boss ("The Wizard of Oz's" Charley Grapewin) that will truly make you empathize with him over being part of such a ridiculous clan.In a long dinner party scene where Shoemaker and Hepburn desperately try to impress MacMurray, the always funny Hattie McDaniel allows herself to play a stereotypical low-class version of her usual black maid as she slowly shuffles back and forth, chewing gum, and dealing with a maid's cap that keeps slipping down her face. McDaniel represents the true pretentiousness of the Adams family as Shoemaker's rash hiring of her (simply because she's black!) leads to possible humiliation. This scene gives the impression that the film is a screwball comedy, but really it is a sad observation about how the lower middle class was trying to rise above being themselves.The stair set of the employment agency she goes to is a memorable visual, listing every profession they are offering inside. The Adams family home too is also quite striking, its front door much grander than the financial situation of the family, as is the set for Stone's non-working glue factory. What could be a rather ordinary story of eccentrics and their phoniness ends up exploring the turn-around of its heroine who finally wakes up when she finds real love and realizes that she doesn't need to be anyone but who she is. At first Hepburn's extremely chatty Alice is really annoying (or "rayley" as she always seemed to pronounce it in her early films) but that slowly dissipates as she meets and falls in love with the wealthy but really down-to-earth MacMurray.

Encore: Alice Adams (1935) Katheryn Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Ann Shoemaker, Hattie McDaniel. Marvelous story from the book by Booth Tarkington, of a small town girl who is trying to keep up appearances among her former friends, as her family sinks farther into poverty. One of her 'friends' invites her to the party of the season, at the mansion of her former girlfriends family, and she has to wear a 2 year old out-of-season gown. And go with her reluctant brother as her escort. There she meets a wealthy young man who dances with her and she is smitten. From this set up of the social order in this town, we have scenes of the home life of the Adams family. When the beau comes calling, Alice won't ask him in; she is too embarrassed about her home. Finally, he challenges her to meet the rest of her family; and her Mom keeps wanting her to have him for dinner. So she does. In a scene that is so funny it is heartbreaking, on the hottest night of the year; serving hot food when they are all melting; and melting aspic and ice cream, it is a disaster. Alice tells Arthur she knows he just wants to get away from this place. With a side story of her father and his problems and why the family has lost its' middle class existence, the film winds down to a happy ending when Arthur comes back and he and Alice make up. The book has a harsher end for Alice, but this is Hollywood. Good film anyway, with scenes that break your heart if you have ever been embarrassed by who you are, or by so-called friends. 9/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026056/

I watched this after reading that it's the movie where the impressionists picked up their preoccupation with the word "really" when doing Hepburn.It's a charming performance. I enjoyed watching the title character, a RAH-ther :) typical of the time study of a young woman vs. her position in life vs. a man (the youngest Fred MacMurray I've seen yet). I also loved the house she lived in and how the actors interacted with it -- esp. the scene where Hepburn ran up the back stairs in order to make a proper entrance down the front stars. That was brilliant, the sort of thing one would only do in one's own, familiar, actual home. Really grounded the characters to the place. And I related strongly with the way the story turned out, a realistic and balanced "honesty is the best policy" tale. Quite good.