Stella Dallas
Stella Dallas

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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. Stephen later marries Helen Morrison (his prior fiancée), and Laurel becomes the focus of Stella's life and love. Nothing is too good for Laurel as far as Stella is concerned. Determined to give her all the advantages, she takes Laurel on a trip to an expensive resort whe... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Stella Dallas:

Barbara Stanwyck
John Boles
Anne Shirley
Barbara O'Neil
Alan Hale
Marjorie Main

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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. Stephen later marries Helen Morrison (his prior fiancée), and Laurel becomes the focus of Stella's life and love. Nothing is too good for Laurel as far as Stella is concerned. Determined to give her all the advantages, she takes Laurel on a trip to an expensive resort where Laurel makes friends with rich kids. After an embarrassing incident, Stella realizes that her daughter would go farther in life without Stella as her mother. Her subsequent sacrifice is shattering.

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The Dissolve - 9/10 by Scott TobiasStella Dallas itself-sentimental without question, building to an act of heartbreaking selflessness-earns the copious tears it jerks, embodying the "weepie" in every respect, yet more complicated and more flush with genuine emotion.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyKing Vidor's tasteful direction and Stanwyck's heartbreaking performance as the self-sacrificing mother are responsible for the emotional power of this melodrama, recently evaluated and elevated by both feminist and auteurist critics.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 6/10 by Dennis SchwartzBarbara Stanwyck gives a sensational brassy performance as the ambitious poor girl trying to make a better life for herself by marrying above her class.
User Review - 10/10 by Mackenzie SThis is an incredibly moving piece of work and includes remarkable performances by Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Shirley, and Barbara O'Neill.
User Review - 10/10 by Jeff BTears will flow as Ms Stanwyck (one of Hollywood's truly under appreciated stars, at least as far as the Academy was concerned.) first draws you in with a gut turning display of loutishness, but then twists the knife with its gut-wrenching climax. Some here compare it to Bette Davis's Classic 'Of Human Bondage' and the only Academy Award Winning turn for Joan Crawford "Mildred Pierce', I do not see that at all. Consistently excellent in her roles (see 'Christmas in Connecticut' or 'Meet John Doe') Ms Stanwyck owns the three-hankie tear jerker, and the jewel in her crown is 'Stella Dallas'/
User Review - 10/10 by Charlie HA radical masterpiece about the dangers of idolatry in marriage, and how the pressures of a conformist society can destroy an individual. Decades of critics have missed the real point, distracted by excellent performances and direction.
User Review - 10/10 by Tristan GBarbara Stanwyck's character is so interesting and so unique and the film itself is so masterful in it's development. I love this film so much.
User Review - 10/10 by Louie DBarbara Stanwyck left every other queen of melodrama standing - and this movie proves it. She was born to play this role and outshines everyone else on-screen, managing to make the character of Stella both annoyingly manipulative and endearingly vulnerable at one and the same time. Absolutely amazing! I well-up each time I watch it.
User Review - 10/10 by Donald HAfter a creaky start, this grows into a devastating movie with an unmatched ability to reduce grown men and women to sobbing heaps.
User Review - 10/10 by Shari LUnfairly passed off as typical Hollywood sentimentality, however, few Hollywood films from the era have hit me as squarely and unflinchingly in the emotional gut as this one. It is the story of a relationship that never should have happened and the daughter that gets stuck in the middle. Stella and Stephen are on completely different planets (they even articulate as much to each other as they stroll down the sidewalk) yet they somehow think that once they are together their differences will reconcile themselves. Of course, things are never as good as those naive days before the marriage. Vidor, a master of vignettes, fills each moment with fascinating (and subtle) mise-en-scene - the most amazing of which is the scene after the swanky dinner, when "Stephen's heart" is pleading with Stella (via the mirror's reflection). The whole film is heart-wrenching drama hidden behind a facade of smiles and niceties. And, of course, there's also Barbara Stanwyck.

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