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Stella Dallas

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Stella Dallas
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1hr 46min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1937
Director:
King Vidor
Distributor:
HBO Home Video
Starring:
Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley  ...more
Synopsis: Produced by Sam Goldwyn, this second film version of Olive Higgins Prouty's Stella Dallas is by far the best. The combined talents of Goldwyn, director King Vidor and star Barbara Stanwyck lift this property far above the level of mere soap opera. Stanwyck is perfectly cast as Stella Martin, the loud, vulgar factory-town girl who snares wealthy husband Stephen Dallas (John Boles). When Stephen is offered a job in New York, Stella stays behind, knowing that she'll never be part of her husband's social ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
The height of multiple-hankie melodrama, King Vidor's Stella Dallas (1937) is also the most affecting screen adaptation of the Olive Higgins Prouty novel. As the ultimate self-abnegating mother, Barbara Stanwyck endows her upwardly aspiring Stella with a potent mixture of crass fashion sense, hedonistic energy, self-aware pathos, and maternal love, while Anne Shirley's Laurel is visibly and poignantly ... Full Review
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Barbara Stanwyck
Stella Dallas, Stella Martin/ Stella Dallas
John Boles
Stephen Dallas
Anne Shirley
Laurel Dallas
Barbara O'Neil
Helen Morrison
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