The success of Alice Adams gave Hepburn's career a much needed boost, putting her back on top at the box office, and the film went on to be a classic. For George Stevens the film generated a long and distinguished career as a director. He and Hepburn worked together twice more in 1937's Quality Street and 1942's Woman of the Year.

Actor Randolph Scott was considered for the role of Arthur Russell.

Although actress Bette Davis beat Katharine Hepburn in the Academy Awards race for Best Actress for her performance in Dangerous (1935), Davis often said that Hepburn was the one who deserved to win for Alice Adams.

Hattie McDaniel, the actress who plays the part of the Adamses' impertinent hired maid, went on to become the first African-American actor to ever win an Academy Award with her portrayal of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939) just a few years later.

Memorable Quotes from ALICE ADAMS

"Mother, don't you think you and I are both a little selfish trying to make poor old dad go out and get something better? After all, we've got enough, really."
"Enough?! I suppose you've got a limousine to take you to the dance tonight. I suppose you only gotta call the florist and order up some orchids."
-- Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn) and her mother (Ann Shoemaker)

"Ma, I told you over a week ago, I'm not going to that old dance."
"But Walter--"
"Don't 'But Walter' me. I'm no society snake. I'm as liable to go to that Palmer dance as I am to eat a few barrels of broken glass."
--Alice's brother Walter (Frank Albertson) and Mrs. Adams.

"She's not run after the way the other girls are because she's poor and hasn't any background." -- Mrs. Adams, to her husband Virgil (Fred Stone), speaking about Alice.

"What a bunch. As soon as I get rid of you, I'm going back to that little room where I left my hat and coat and smoke myself to death." -- Walter, to Alice at Mildred Palmer's party.

"Well, it certainly is unfortunate that I am so different from Mildred."
"Why unfortunate?"
"Goodness! Why, because she's perfect. She's perfectly perfect. Yes, we all fairly adore her. You know, she's like some big, noble gold statue way up above the rest of us. She hardly ever does anything mean or treacherous. You know, of all the girls I know, I think she plays the fewest really mean tricks."
--Alice and her suitor, Arthur Russell (Fred MacMurray).

"You know, the other day when you walked home with me, I got to wondering what I wanted you to think of me in case I should ever happen to see you again."
"And what did you decide?"
"I decided I should probably never dare to be just myself with you. Not if I cared to have you want to see me again. And yet here I am, just being myself after all."
-- Alice, to Arthur

"J.A. Lamb don't forget things. If he owed you money, he'd cut off his hand to pay you. But if he thought you were trying to get the best of him, he'd cut off both hands to keep you from doing it."--Alice's father, Virgil Adams, to his wife.

"You know, I have the strangest feeling. I feel as if I were only going to see you about five minutes more all the rest of my life." -- Alice, to Arthur.

"I heard a great deal at Mildred's this afternoon, too."
"So they did talk about me."
"Yes, they talked about you a lot. And I found out one thing. I love you, Alice."
"Gee whiz!"

--Arthur/Alice

Compiled by Andrea Passafiume