Mrs. Adams — Alice Adams Character Profile

About Mrs. Adams

Alice's mother, embittered by her husband's illness and their family's low social standing. She drives the plot by pressuring her husband to start a glue factory and participates in the failed dinner charade to impress Arthur.

Character Facts

Played by

Ann Shoemaker

Appears in

Alice Adams (1935)

Role

Supporting

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• Alice Adams (Katharine Hepburn)
• Arthur Russell (Fred MacMurray)
• Virgil Adams (Fred Stone)
• Mildred 'Georgette' Palmer (Evelyn Venable)
• Malena Burns - Maid Serving Dinner (Hattie McDaniel)
• Walter Adams (Frank Albertson)
• Mrs. Dresser (uncredited) (Zeffie Tilbury)
• Party Guest (uncredited) (Joe Gilbert)
• J. A. Lamb (Charley Grapewin)
• Frank Dowling (Grady Sutton)
• Mrs. Palmer (Hedda Hopper)
• Mr. Palmer (Jonathan Hale)