Alice Adams (1935)

Alice Adams (1935) - Romance Movies 99 minutes. . In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away? small town, inventor, gambling debt, business idea, business start-up, young love, dinner party, socially awkward, awkward situation, nagging wife, dinner guest, social climber, poor pretending to be rich, ambitious wife