Alice Adams

An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.

A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

A socially inept fourteen-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends - Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love - fall for ea

A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a Black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a blind flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.

The owner of a bridal shop unknowingly falls in love with the son of her main competitor, then must thwart her rival's attempts to destroy their relationship.

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a