King Vidor's "Stella Dallas" (1937), starring Barbara Stanwyck at her best, keeps us ping-ponging between sympathy and contempt for its titular anti-heroine. Stella, the product of a lower-class ...

Stella Dallas is chiefly a tear-jerker of ... especially, a scene between Barbara Stanwyck and Anne Shirley in a train when the former has just heard playmates of the latter criticize the ...

Barbara Stanwyck Shines Again in New Biography. ... Stand-Up Dame,” as PEOPLE called her in 1990, when, after a four-decade career, the formidable star of Annie Oakley, Stella Dallas, ...

Barbara Stanwyck in Stella Dallas (1937) His critical analyses of her performances are not, thankfully, uncommitted, academic regurgitations of what others have written, ...

If a vote were held to name the weepiest weepie ever made, there’s a good chance “Stella Dallas” would win the honors. The 1937 Barbara Stanwyck drama tells the story of Stella, a working ...

‘VALLEY’ GIRL Barbara Stanwyck had just completed her last movie, “The Night Walker,” and was about to embark on a new career as the matriarch of a television Western family in “The Big ...

Stanwyck passed away at age 82 in 1990, but her films, among them Baby Face (1933), Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), The Lady Eve (1941) and Christmas in Connecticut (1945) have been ...

The Hope College Knickerbocker Theatre will show four films featuring Barbara Stanwyck during its “One Night Only” series every Monday from Nov. 25 to Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m. The series will screen ...