An earlier silent version was filmed of Alice Adams in 1923 starring Florence Vidor in the title role.

In 1938 the Lux Radio Theater broadcast a shortened 60 minute version of Alice Adams in which Fred MacMurray reprised his role as Arthur, opposite actress Claudette Colbert as Alice.

The novels and stories of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) have served as the basis and source of many Hollywood films over the years. Among the more famous adaptations are The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), directed by Orson Welles, Presenting Lily Mars (1943) starring Judy Garland, On Moonlight Bay (1951) and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) - two musicals based on the "Penrod" stories and featuring Doris Day - and The Bad Sister (1931), based on Tarkington's novel The Flirt and starring Bette Davis.

by Andrea Passafiume