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Title: "A poor little rose for your thoughts."
Review: Katherine Hepburn plays the ever upward-groping main character in this movie based on Booth Tarkington's novel, and she is excellent. From the wrong side of the tracks, Alice is in a constant pursuit to make it over to the right side. A wealthy man (Frd MacMurray) enters her life, and she tries to hide her real background from him; the results, of course, are disastrous (yet funny). The picture is a very faithful rendition of the book, and in both (though more so in the movie) we wait for Alice's great (and deserved) fall, but it doesn't come. There is also a subplot with her father and overbearing mother, when the father gets in trouble when he strikes out for himself in business - all a bit schmaltzy. In fact, the last 15 minutes are just that because Hollywood insisted on a happy ending rather than having MacMurray making his getaway, as is expected and happens in the book. That's a real shame. But definitely worth a watch.
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