Stella Dallas (Motion picture : 1937) [WorldCat Entities]

"Amore sublime"@it

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"An uncouth woman loses both husband and daughter."@en
"An uncouth woman loses both husband and daughter."
""Stella, femme du peuple, épouse le riche Stephen Dallas, avec lequel elle aura une fille, Laurel. Peut de temps après la naissance de celle-ci, Stephen abandonne Stella et rejoint son ancienne maitresse. Stella élèvera seule sa fille et lui consacrera son existence. A l'adolescence, Laurel, attirée par le style de vie de son père, veut a tout prix aller vivre avec lui. Stella s'oppose à cette idée, puis finit par céder, laissant alors sa fille aspirer à un rang social plus élevé, qui pourrait à jamais la séparer d'elle."--[allociné.fr]. Avec Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, Alan Hale."
"Stephen Dallas, well-educated and refined, falls in love with and marries Stella Martin, a pretty young mill-hand. He soon realizes that they have nothing in common. Gradually they see less and less of each other, Stella being absorbed in bringing up their daughter Laurel. Laurel has much of her father in her and recoils instinctively from her mother's vulgarity, though remaining completely loyal to her. As Laurel grows up things become increasingly difficult. Stella consents to a divorce from Stephen for Laurel's sake. Laurel hears what has happened and refuses to leave her mother. Stella makes the supreme sacrifice. She pretends she is sick of being a mother and wants a good time with a drunken old admirer. Completely deceived and disillusioned Laurel leaves her and finds happiness with her father and stepmother."
"Afer the suicide of his formerly wealthy father, socialite Stephen Dallas moves to a small town and marries Stella, a woman far below his social station. Their marriage is a failure, and Stephen returns to New York, leaving Stella to raise their daughter, Laurel. Stella eventually agrees to divorce Stephen so that Stephen can marry a widow to provide a better home for Laurel, who by then has become a young woman. Laurel, however, prefers to stay with Stella, but after Stella marries a drunkard, is forced to live with her father. The film ends with Laurel's wedding ceremony, which Stella, standing in the rain outside, is almost prevented from watching. Barbara Stanwyck later starred in a 1937 re-make, directed by King Vidor."@en
"An uncouth, vulgar woman must decide if she should give up her daughter so that the girl may have a better life with her wealthy, respectable father and his new wife."@en
"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."
"Stella Dallas, a lower-class woman who married an executive, must learn to give up her daughter so that the girl may have a better life."@en
"L'operaia Stella sposa il distinto Stephen Dallas ma non si adatta, lei provinciale, alla vita che lui le impone. Un divorzio risolverebbe molte cose (anche il ritorno di fiamma del marito per la sua prima fidanzata) ma Stella lo accetterà solo anni dopo e solo per favorire le nozze della figlia. (Mereghetti)."@it
"Feature film from the USA. Drama. Screen adaptation of the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. A working-class mother goes to extraordinary lengths to give her daughter by a rich man a better life."
"Even after her marriage to well-bred Stephen Dallas ends, irrepressible Stella is determined to give their daughter the life she never had. When it comes down to her child's happiness versus her own, Stella's sacrifice is the epitome of bravery."@en
"Even after her marriage to well-bred Stephen Dallas ends, irrepressible Stella is determined to give their daughter the life she never had. When it comes down to her child's happiness versus her own, Stella's sacrifice is the epitome of bravery."
"A mother who has married above her station sacrifices everything for her daughter's happiness and eventually gives up the girl for her own good."
"An uncouth, lower-class woman must learn to let go of the daughter she loves so that the girl may have a better life."@en
"A mother sacrifices everything for her daughter's happiness and eventually gives up the girl for her own good."
"A mother sacrifices everything for her daughter's happiness and eventually gives up the girl for her own good."@en
"Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence."
"Stella, an uncouth, lower-class woman, marries wealthy, well-bred Stephen Dallas to escape her poor surroundings. When their class differences lead to divorce, she undergoes a self-sacrificing struggle to give their daughter a better life, away from her damaging influence."@en
"Diversità di ceto e di educazione dividono ben presto una giovane popolana dal marito di origine aristocratica. La donna ottiene l'affidamento della figlia, ma quando questa, ormai cresciuta, viene corteggiata da un coetaneo di ottima famiglia ..."
""Upon the suicide of his father, socialite Stephen Dallas leaves his opulent home and goes to live in a small town where he marries Stella, a woman far below his social station. The marriage is a failure, and Stephen soon separates from Stella, returning to New York and leaving Stella to care for Laurel, their little girl. Years pass. Laurel grows to young womanhood, and Stella, realizing that she cannot properly provide for her tender, sensitive daughter, agrees at last to divorce Stephen so that he can marry Helen Morrison and thereby provide a good home for Laurel. Laurel at first refuses to leave her mother, but Stella marries a drunkard and Laurel is forced to live with her father. Laurel later marries Richard Grovesnor, a society lad of considerable charm and promise, and Stella, standing in the rain outside, watches the ceremony through a window of the Morrison home"--AFI catalog, 1921-1930."@en
"Stella, una chica de familia humilde, se casa con el adinerado Steve. Al poco tiempo, tienen una hija y todo parece ir bien, pero las grandes diferencias de educación harán mella en su matrimonio y finalmente se separan. Pasados unos años, Stella renuncia a su hija en favor de Steve para que la niña se críe en un mejor ambiente."
""Young Stella Martin, the daughter of a Millwood factory worker, is secretly attracted to Stephen Dallas, a minor executive at the factory whose family was once wealthy. Stephen has broken his engagement to Helen, his long-time sweetheart, because he fears that his present lack of money and social position would not be good for her. Stella schemes to have a chance encounter with Stephen, and when the opportunity presents itself one afternoon when her brother Charlie goes to work at the factory without his lunch, Stephen is attracted to her. Soon they begin to see each other in the evenings, and Stephen asks her to marry him, even though she warns him that the differences in their backgrounds might be a problem. After their baby daughter Laurel is born, Stella becomes bored with her life as the wife of a staid, rising businessman and begins to exhibit social characteristics which Stephen finds unsuitable. After Stella insists on dancing with the kind, but loutish Ed Munn at the exclusive River Club, Stephen tells Stella that he will have to be spending more time on business in New York. Stephen's visits home become less and less frequent, and they eventually separate. Though Stephen does not think that Stella can provide the right atmosphere for Laurel, he allows Stella to keep the girl, knowing how much she loves her. Many years later, while Stephen is selecting a gift for Laurel in a New York department store, he encounters his former fiancée. Now Mrs. Morrison, a widow with three sons, Helen is delighted to see Stephen again, and the two rekindle their former love. Soon, when Laurel comes to visit her father, she stays with the Morrisons whose opulent life and family atmosphere are far different than her lower class life with her mother. Stephen wants to marry Helen and informs Stella through his lawyer, but she refuses to give him a divorce and asks for more money. She fears that Stephen and Helen are trying to take Laurel away from her and wants the extra money to give Laurel all of the things that she has with the Morrisons. At a posh resort to which she takes Laurel, a minor illness keeps Stella bedridden while the sweet and beautiful Laurel enjoys the company of rich young people. Laurel is grateful to her mother for the trip to the resort, but when Stella unexpectedly gets out of bed and dresses in her gaudy new clothes, Laurel is too embarrassed to let her new friends know that the woman they find so ridiculous is her mother. On the train home, Laurel and Stella each overhear some girls talking about their discovery that the gaudy woman at the resort is really Laurel's mother. Stella pretends to be asleep when Laurel looks in on her, but decides that she must give Laurel to Stephen and Helen if she is to have the kind of life she deserves. Though Stella makes Laurel think that she wants the divorce to go to South America with Ed Munn, Helen has been secretly visited by Stella and knows the painful sacrifice that Stella has made for her daughter. Some years later, the news of Laurel's forthcoming marriage to the wealthy Richard Grosvenor, III, reaches the newspapers, revealing that the wedding will be at the Dallas home in New York. As preparations are being made, Helen insists that the curtains in the living room remain open. Laurel cannot believe that her mother has not contacted her, but Helen tells her that Stella would never miss attending her daughter's wedding if she could. As the ceremony takes place, Stella is in the front of the crowd looking in the window. A policeman tells the crowd to move along, but Stella stays until after Dick kisses Laurel. Now confident of her daughter's happiness, Stella smiles and walks away"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en