Stella Dallas (1937)

Directed by

King Vidor

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 98 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A working class woman marries into a wealthy family but struggles to fit in. Over the years she makes sacrifices for her daughter's happiness.

sentimentalold-fashionedemotionaldramaticclassicromanticnostalgicheartfelt

What happens

Stella Dallas is a 1937 American melodrama 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 and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. The film is the second of three film adaptations of Prouty's novel: it was preceded by a silent film of the same name in 1925, and followed by Stella in 1990. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival as part of a retrospective of Vidor's career. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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