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Overview

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Director:
King Vidor
Writers:
Olive Higgins Prouty (novel)
Harry Wagstaff Gribble (dramatisation) ...
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Release Date:
6 August 1937 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
Sure - I like a good time! more
Plot:
Working-class Stella Martin marries high-end Stephen Dallas and soon they have a daughter named Laurel... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. more
User Comments:
Sentimental Soap more

Cast

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Barbara Stanwyck ... Stella Martin 'Stell' Dallas
John Boles ... Stephen Dallas
Anne Shirley ... Laurel 'Lollie' Dallas
Barbara O'Neil ... Helen Morrison Dallas
Alan Hale ... Ed Munn
Marjorie Main ... Mrs. Martin
George Walcott ... Charlie Martin
Ann Shoemaker ... Miss Margaret Phillibrown

Tim Holt ... Richard 'Dick' Grosvenor III
Nella Walker ... Mrs. Grosvenor
Bruce Satterlee ... Cornelius 'Con' Morrison
Jimmy Butler ... Cornelius 'Con' Morrison (grown up)
Jack Egger ... John Morrison
Dickie Jones ... Lee Morrison
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Additional Details

Runtime:
106 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #3558)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Mabel Colcord is listed in studio records as an actress in this movie but did not appear. Al Shean, Lillian West and Mildred Gover were in Hollywood Reporter production charts, but also did not appear in the movie. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Stephen Dallas is first seen in his office, he's typing a letter. You can see that his fingers type several different keys, spaced out on the keyboard (probably in the middle of the middle rows), before he lowers his hands and stops typing to read. Then when he reads, you see that his letter ends with ---. It's not possible for him to have typed --- using the keys he was striking before he lowered his hands. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Susan Slept Here (1954) more
Soundtrack:
Margie more

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Sentimental Soap, 3 May 2009
8/10
Author: kenjha

As she struggles to make a living, a floozy of a woman tries to give the best things to her daughter. An effective soap opera that gives Stanwyck one of her best roles and she's the whole show here. This film helped launch the peak period of her career, culminating with "Double Indemnity" seven years later. She's ably supported by Shirley, perhaps a bit too syrupy, as her daughter and Boles as her ex-husband; interestingly, both actors retired early from films a few years later. Hale is over-the-top as her no-good boyfriend. Vidor, a hack director who managed to make a couple of notable films, milks the story for all the sentiment he can.

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