Stella Dallas

Stanwyck is probably the best movie star who ever existed.

ghostdinosaur

Vidor is one of the most sensitive directors - it's wonderful to see a film which has no specific underlying message or theme, simply about people who are flawed and make mistakes and who often have the best interests of others at heart. And it maybe has the most…

Neil Bahadur

I don’t think a mother-daughter drama has torn my heart out quite like this

Sara Clements

I think my least favorite subgenre in all of film is 'motherly sacrifice melodrama.' Movies that brutalize and abuse mothers beyond all reason, ostensibly to be able to celebrate their embodiment of the maternal responsibility to elide the self, are insulting and…

sakana1

i last saw this in 2016 and completely forgot that this is the most devastating movie ever made. barbara stanwyck walking away from that fence, chewing on her handkerchief, her face reading equal parts triumphant and destitute... all of this movie is so hard to watch but…

nora

One of the most emotionally and stylistically powerful movies I have ever watched. Saw it five days ago and haven't stopped thinking about it since. Will be discussing in the next video!

Maia

I think my heart just collapsed. Barbara Stanwyck and Anne Shirley are wonderful.

Erik [Auk]

Stella Dallas is a solidly rooted melodrama directed by King Vidor with a lead protagonist (Barbara Stanwyck) who the filmmaker refreshingly portrays as far from perfect and arduously challenging to like. It's the second and superior version of three films based on the 1923…

Paul Elliott

God, Barbara Stanwyck could ACT—and she does so so darn beautifully here.

nessa