Radio review - TGA - "Alice Adams" (1948) **

Katherine Hepburn's performance in the 1935 film was full of ticks and breathlessness so it's appropriate in a way to find Judy Garland cast in this radio version. But after an erratic start she eventually calms down and does fine work. I still didn't like this - too awkward and painful, the family life is so devastatingly portrayed (frustrated, nagging mum and pathetic father). It keeps the unconvincing happy ending of the film and Anne Schoemaker as her social climbing (with reason - her husband is useless) mother. Thomas Mitchell plays dad. The dinner party scene is greatly reduced.