Tuesday 18 December 2012

Alice Adams (1935 George Stevens)

In Katharine Hepburn's capable hands we initially feel so sorry for Alice Adams where she gamely attempts not to feel lonely at a snobbish dance, though she becomes annoying trying to cover up the family poverty. Able support from Fred Stone, Anne Shoemaker and Frank Albertson (Sam Wainwright in It's A Wonderful Life), along with Fred MacMurray and, too briefly, Hattie 'McDaniels' as a particularly slow maid.


Ph. Robert de Grasse, Music Roy Webb, so it must be RKO.

Katharine is the only actor to have won four Oscars: Morning Glory (33), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (67), The Lion in Winter (68) and On Golden Pond (81). Lion in Winter looks great: former editor Anthony Harvey directing, John Barry, Douglas Slocombe on camera, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'Toole, widescreen. Danish Blu-Ray £25.

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