Stella Dallas (1925)

Directed by

Henry King

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A working class woman marries a wealthy man and they have a daughter. She struggles to fit into high society and her marriage suffers as a result.

old-fashionedmelodramaticpoignantquietly emotionalslowromanticdatedsentimental

What happens

Stella Dallas is a 1925 American silent drama film that was produced by Samuel Goldwyn, adapted by Frances Marion, and directed by Henry King. The film stars Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Lois Moran, Alice Joyce, Jean Hersholt, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Prints of the film survive in several film archives. This was the first feature film adaptation of the 1923 novel Stella Dallas by Olive Higgins Prouty. Subsequent film versions were Stella Dallas (1937) and Stella (1990). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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