Stella Dallas
Summary:
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 Bo... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Barbara Stanwyck - (Stella Dallas)
John Boles - (Stephen Dallas)
Anne Shirley - (Laurel Dallas)
Barbara O'Neil - (Helen Morrison)
Alan Hale - (Ed Munn)
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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 ma... Continue >>
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