Stella Dallas
Sure - I like a good time!
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Drama
Romance
6.9
95 reviewsRuntime: 106 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 1937-08-06
Director(s): King Vidor
Production: Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Languages: English
IMDB: tt0029608
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CinemaSerf★ 7/106/20/2022
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). It doesn't take long before the couple become estranged and "Laurel" the sole focus of her mother's attentions. Nothing is too good for her, and in striving to give "Laurel" the best she gradually realises - sometimes, by some rather harsh means - that she herself may be standing in the way of the girl's happiness; particularly once her now ex-husband finds love elsewhere with a family her daughter adores. The performances deal well with the issues of ambition, devotion, snobbery and emotional cruelty and Stanwyck plays the title role with skill and sincerity. Alan Hale is also good, as the avuncular gambler, in this ultimately rather touching story.