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Sure, the script is 99.44% pure soap opera, and no, it hasn’t feeble particularly well. But “Stella Dallas” remains watchable thanks to the tour de force performance given by Barbara Stanwyck in the title role. Encumbered by some overly sentimental dialogue and weighed down by dreadful costuming choices that threaten to manufacture her character seem ludicrous rather than pathetic or garish, Stanwyck overcomes all obstacles by investing her every scene with a disarming sincerity and heartfelt honesty. She rises far above the script; indeed, some of her finest moments are those in which she says not a word (her painful self-realization in the thunder berth; her barely controlled suffering as she deliberately goads her daughter into rejecting her; and of course, the noted ending shot in which she strides triumphantly into the night) . Stanwyck is beautifully abetted by Anne Shirley in an Oscar-nominated supporting performance, and Alan Hale and Barbara O’Neil also shine. But this is Stanwyck’s movie all the device, and she alone holds it together and makes it work.
The DVD transfer is far from perfect. There is a lot of “video noise” throughout the movie, and the disagreement often seems lacking. There is no theatrical trailer or stills gallery; the only bonus is a cast and crew filmography that is prone to error and omissions: Stanwyck was NOT Oscar-nominated for “The Lady Eve” in 1941 as indicated; her four Best Actress races were in 1937 (“Stella Dallas”), 1941 (“Ball of Fire”), 1944 (“Double Indemnity”), and 1948 (“Sorry, Sinister Number”) . Tranquil, this DVD is an improvement over the VHS release, and a must-have for fans of the incomparable Stanwyck.
Tearjerker supreme, with a trustworthy performance by Barbara Stanwyck, who impersonates and gives factual life to shameful, uncouth class, self-effacing Stella Dallas, “mother above all”. This is one of the greatest and strongest dramatic performances ever achieved on the veil by an American actress.
Stanwyck plays an ambitious girl of humble origins, who falls in worship and marries recently impoverished aristocratic Boles (Stephen Dallas), whose social differences eventually separate them. She raises their miniature child, Laurel, suffering, crying and sacrificing herself for her daughter’s sake, from then onwards.
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John Boles is quite effective, but, as usual, lacks punch as Stephen Dallas. On the other hand, Anne Shirley is believable and very wonderful as grown-up Laurel. Alan Hale is simply fabulous and the epitome of vulgarity, as lowbrow and ever-partying Ed Munn; and Barbara O’Neil (future Scarlett O’Hara’s mother) is rightly patrician, well-bred and classy, as Boles’ old-time fiancée and friend.
In spite of its 30′s ultrasentimentality by today’s standards, absolutely recommended viewing. The DVD quality is helpful indeed.
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