Rewind, Review, and Re-rate: ‘Stella Dallas’: Barbara Stanwyck as an Unlikely but Devoted Mother

Lobby card featuring Ed (Alan Hale), Stephen Dallas (John Boles). Laurel, and Stella (Barbara Stanwyck) in "Stella Dallas." MovieStillsDB

U | 1h 46 min | Drama | 1937

Director King Vidor’s “Stella Dallas” is about exchanging dreams: those we choose to exchange and those we’re compelled to. His film draws on Massachusetts-born Olive Higgins Prouty’s novel of the same name.