Alice Adams 1935

Andre Sennwald, New York Times: An oddly exciting blend of tenderness, comedy and realistic despair, it touches life intimately at many points during its account of a lonely girl in a typical American small town. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Stevens's talent for stepping away from the plotline and creating intimate, casual, and naturalistic moments is given plenty of opportunity here, as it would not be in his later superproductions. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: Hepburn is magnificent as the small-town social climber, although the script so softens Booth Tarkington's novel. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: That George Stevens' direction captures the wistfulness of Katharine Hepburn's superb histrionism, and yet has not sacrificed audience values at the altar of too much drabness and prosaic realism, is an achievement of no small order. Read more