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Director:
Writers:
Olive Higgins Prouty (novel)
Harry Wagstaff Gribble (dramatisation) ...
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Release Date:
6 August 1937 (USA) more
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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:
Not for the unsentimental more (37 total)

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
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The play version written by Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Gertrude Purcell had no Broadway, New York run. 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
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15 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
Not for the unsentimental, 14 July 2004
10/10
Author: limshun from Brooklyn, NY

I love this movie and have seen it time and time again. This doesn't have the control and grace of a Douglas Sirk melodrama (and it is certainly earlier than Sirk), but this movie still has "stacks of style" as Stella herself would say. Extremely well set up story even if it is a bit far-fetched in places. Barbara Stanwyck is, well... pretty much unbeatable. She is one of the few actresses who can walk that tightrope between trashy and classy and make the two not feel mutually exclusive. As much as her character is overblown or enlarged from reality, this role is one that is a good deal more complex than most. Stanwyck was not an actress who felt she had to play everything for sympathy with the result that the moments when you feel bad for her hit you even harder than you expected. The birthday party scene is triumphantly painful and not to be missed. Anne Shirley ,who plays Laurel Dallas, Stella's daughter, I would bet will be overly sweet for a lot of viewers (myself included) but her manufactured sweetness only brings the complexity of Stella herself to the fore. This film never really misses a beat. It knows what it wants to do and it does it as unapologetically as Stella would.

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