Alice Adams

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Alice Adams, 1935.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces Alice Adams, 1935.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Alice Adams, 1935.

Katharine Hepburn (title character) is about to sign up for business school when dreamy-but-engaged bachelor Arthur (Fred MacMurray) appears, so she confabulates, in George Stevens' Alice Adams, 1935.

Ever-charming character exposition by director George Stevens, Katharine Hepburn (title character) in the opening scene, in Alice Adams, 1935, from Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

Katharine Hepburn (title character) primping her not-new dress, visiting convalescing father (Fred Stone), sent off to the dance by mother (Ann Shoemaker), escorted by her reluctant brother (Frank Albertson), early in George Stevens' Alice Adams, 1935.

Doing badly at the dance, impecunious Alice (Katharine Hepburn) seeks her disappeared escort brother (Frank Albertson), stalls for time, then is rescued by gracious and new-in-town Arthur (Fred MacMurray), in Alice Adams, 1935, from the Booth Tarkington novel.

Arthur (Fred MacMurray) tries to dispell Alice's (Katharine Hepburn) doubts about their future in her small town, over a romantic dinner in director George Stevens' Alice Adams, 1935.