TY - ADVS AU - Stanwyck,Barbara AU - Boles,John AU - Shirley,Anne AU - Vidor,King AU - Mason,Sarah Y. AU - Heerman,Victor AU - Gribble,Harry Wagstaff AU - Purcell,Gertrude AU - Prouty,Olive Higgins ED - Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. TI - Stella Dallas T2 - Great directors SN - 0783101546 PY - 1990///?] CY - New York, N.Y. PB - HBO Video KW - Prouty, Olive Higgins, KW - Love, Maternal KW - Drama KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Self-sacrifice KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Feature films N1 - Originally produced a motion picture in 1937; Based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty; Directed by King Vidor ; produced by Samuel Goldwyn ; screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman ; dramatization by Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Gertrude Purcell ; photography, Rudolph Mat�e ; editing, Sherman Todd ; musical direction, Alfred Newman; Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley N2 - A social-climbing mill-hand marries the high society man who has fallen in love with her. She dreams of a better life for their daughter, but comes to realize that she herself is a barrier to her daughter's happiness. Although the girl is put off by her mother's vulgarity, she remains loyal. Stella eventually pretends to be sick of motherhood so the girl will leave her for her father and his new wife ER -