page_title: Alice Adams (novel)
section_title: Adaptations
hierarchical_section_title: Alice Adams (novel) / Adaptations
caption_attribution_description: English: Screenshot of Katharine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray from the trailer for the 1935 film Alice Adams
context_page_description: Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and more famously in 1935 by George Stevens. The narrative centers on the character of a young woman who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I.
context_section_description: The plot of the 1935 film (a remake of the silent movie based on the novel, which was filmed in 1923) revolves around a social-climbing girl (Katharine Hepburn) and her mother (Ann Shoemaker); it has minor changes from the novel and a different ending. It was written by Dorothy Yost, Mortimer Offner and Jane Murfin. The film was directed by George Stevens.
  The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
caption: Fred MacMurray and Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams (1935)
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