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Stella Dallas is a 1937 American drama film based on Olive Higgins Prouty's 1923 novel of the same name. It was directed by King Vidor and stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, and Anne Shirley. At the 10th Academy Awards, Stanwyck and Shirley were nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, respectively.
Stella Dallas: Directed by King Vidor. With Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil. A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
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.
Stella Dallas, the ultimate story of self-sacrificing mother love, began as a 1923 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, a novelist/poet from Massachusetts who had written the book in a raw emotional state after suffering the death of two very young daughters within a period of three years. She was inspired to create the plot after overhearing a ...
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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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Stella Dallas is a 1923 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty and published by Houghton Mifflin, written in response to the death of her three-year-old daughter from encephalitis. It tells the story of the eponymous protagonist, a working-class woman who marries a rich businessman but struggles to adapt to her new life.
Stella Dallas was an America radio soap opera that ran from October 25, 1937, to December 23, 1955. The New York Times described the title character as "the beautiful daughter of an impoverished farmhand who had married above her station in life."
Jan 8, 2021 · Stella Dallas (1937) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #StellaDallas True heroines don't always save lives. Sometimes they're simply mothers with an everlasting devotion to their children. Such is the...
Barbara Stanwyck is the ambitious, working class "Stella" who, determined to improve her lot in life, marries well-to-do "Stephen Dallas" (John Boles) and shortly afterwards they have a daughter "Laurel" (Anne Shirley).
