Up until her big hit with "The Philadelphia Story", Katherine Hepburn was known as box-office poison. Movies like this show you why.
Hepburn plays Alice Adams, a young girl ashamed of her family's modest income. The character is a cute ninny, constantly trying transparent deceptions to impress strangers, and failing every time, meanwhile giggling in an annoying manner. But, for no discernible reason, Arthur Russell (Fred MacMurray), a rich and handsome young man, meets her, falls in love with her, and decides to marry her after watching her flounder around attempting to conceal her real circumstances.
There's a subplot involving Alice's parents, and a formula for glue that is even lamer, but I won't go into that. Suffice it to say that all the Adams family members act like idiots, and then everything turns out well in spite of their stupidity.
But people were wrong to blame Hepburn for the disaster of this flick. Nobody could have saved this turkey, which seems to have been written by someone with half a brain.
Trust me. Skip it, unless you long to see a real dog.
Hepburn plays Alice Adams, a young girl ashamed of her family's modest income. The character is a cute ninny, constantly trying transparent deceptions to impress strangers, and failing every time, meanwhile giggling in an annoying manner. But, for no discernible reason, Arthur Russell (Fred MacMurray), a rich and handsome young man, meets her, falls in love with her, and decides to marry her after watching her flounder around attempting to conceal her real circumstances.
There's a subplot involving Alice's parents, and a formula for glue that is even lamer, but I won't go into that. Suffice it to say that all the Adams family members act like idiots, and then everything turns out well in spite of their stupidity.
But people were wrong to blame Hepburn for the disaster of this flick. Nobody could have saved this turkey, which seems to have been written by someone with half a brain.
Trust me. Skip it, unless you long to see a real dog.