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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. [3]
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.
Young Stella Martin, the daughter of a Millwood factory worker, is secretly attracted to Stephen Dallas, a minor executive at the factory whose family was once wealthy.
Working-class Stella Martin marries high-end Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel. But Stephen's incessant demands of Stella to become what she isn't leads to their eventual separation.
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 Shirley).
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Jul 10, 2019 · In her analysis of King Vidor’s 1937 film Stella Dallas, feminist film scholar Mary Ann Doane says that “the maternal melodrama is usually seen as the paradigmatic type of the woman’s film,” 1 and calls it that genre’s “exemplary film” 2. In Stella Dallas, the eponymous heroine, played by Barbara Stanwyck in one of her signature ...
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).
Barbara Stanwyck delivered one of her finest performances in the King Vidor-directed Stella Dallas. In a brave and nuanced turn, Stanwyck gave texture and memorability to a character that exemplifies hints of early Classical Hollywood feminism.
1937 USA Directed by King Vidor Produced by Samuel Goldwyn Written by Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman Featuring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley
