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Stella Martin, a mill worker's daughter in a Massachusetts factory town, wants a better social position. In 1919 she meets Stephen Dallas, the mill's advertising manager, after he has lost the family fortune and his engagement to Helen Morrison ends with a newspaper announcement of her marriage. Stephen and Stella marry after a brief courtship. Their daughter Laurel is born, and Stella discovers a strong maternal instinct that turns her ambitions toward the child. Stephen loves Laurel but finds little else holding the marriage together; he tries to smooth Stella's manners and dislikes her friendship with Ed Munn. When a promotion takes him to New York, Stella stays behind with Laurel, and the couple lives apart while Laurel sees her father on visits.
Cast
- Bruce Satterleeas Cornelius 'Con' Morrison
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- Jack Eggeras John Morrison
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Stella Dallas (1937)
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- Tim Holt, the son of actor Jack Holt, had his first proper film role in Stella Dallas; he played the same part that Douglas Fairbanks Jr., also a film star's son, had played in the 1925 silent version.
