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Stella Dallas is a 1937 American drama film based on a novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. It stars Barbara Stanwyck as a working-class mother who sacrifices her daughter's happiness for a better life.
A working-class mother sacrifices her own happiness for her daughter's social advancement in this Oscar-nominated film. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks and more.
- (6.4K)
- Drama, Romance
- King Vidor
- 1937-08-06
In 1919, the ambitious Stella Martin lives with her working-class family and her father and her brother are workers in a mill in Massachusetts. Stella is decided to climb to the upper-class to party and she chases the mill executive Stephen Dallas to marry him.
Find out who starred in the classic drama film Stella Dallas, based on Olive Higgins Prouty's novel. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers and more on IMDb.
A drama film based on a novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, starring Barbara Stanwyck as a small-town woman who divorces a society man and tries to give her daughter a better life. Watch the trailer, photos, and reviews of this classic movie on TCM.
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When Stella Martin (Barbara Stanwyck), a working class woman, meets and marries the wealthy Stephen Dallas (John Boles), they quickly have a daughter named Laurel (Anne...
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- Drama