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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.
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- 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.
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 ...
- King Vidor, Walter Mayo
- Barbara Stanwyck
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...
- 3 min
- 14.6K
- Warner Bros. Classics
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.
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