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Stella Dallas (Literary Cinema Classics Series) (1923 original; edición 1990)

por Olive Higgins Prouty (Autor)

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This pulp classic of motherhood and money introduced the immortal character portrayed on film by Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler--"a feminist gem" (Michael Bronski).   An ambitious woman from working-class roots, Stella sets her sights on marrying rich--and hits a bullseye. But her unshakable crudeness becomes too much for her husband. When he leaves her, she keeps their daughter Laurel. And now Stella sets her sights one again--this time, on giving her daughter the life she could never achieve for herself.   Originally published in 1923, this epic tale inspired the first radio soap opera, a Broadway play, and multiple films, including the Oscar-nominated 1937 movie starring Barbara Stanwyck and the 1990 movie Stella starring Bette Midler. Stella Dallas is a razor-sharp critique of our societal obsession with the judgment of mothers, offering cultural commentary that is still shockingly relevant nearly one hundred years after its initial publication.… (más)
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Título:Stella Dallas (Literary Cinema Classics Series)
Autores:Olive Higgins Prouty (Autor)
Información:Harpercollins (1990), 245 pages
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Stella Dallas por Olive Higgins Prouty (1923)

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One of the saddest and most beautiful stories I've ever read, Stella Dallas is the story of a mother's unselfish love and wish for the very best for her daughter. Living in a snobbish community, pretty, ambitious, young Stella never had any idea but that she deserved the best that life had to give. She had access to it when she married Stephen Dallas, a young man from a good family name. But she could never give up the compulsion she had for receiving attention from men, and couldn't understand why it was not acceptable to her husband and others from the"smart set." This was her downfall in the uptight times and place her character occupied. When she found she was pregnant, she was at first horrified at the thought of what it would mean to her figure and her social calendar, to be a mother. But her love for"Lollie" grew, and Stella sacrificed everything so that Lollie could have the life Stella knew she deserved. ( )
  burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
This is one of those books that can make you tear up even if you think you won't. It's the story of a mother's ultimate sacrifice for her daughter, so that she may have the life that her mother believes that she deserves.

Stella Dallas marries Steven Dallas shortly after they meet when he was going through a personal crisis and he is being just a bit self destructive. When their daughter Laurel is born, Stella loves her daughter desperately, but isn't quite the mother figure that he had pictured for his child. She in turn finds Steven a lot less fun than he used to be and looks for excitement in all the wrong places. When Steven has had enough of Stella's indiscreet flirtations, he leaves her, although they do not divorce right away.

Stella's heart has always had good intentions, unfortunatly she doesn't mix well with the upper crust Boston society and is shunned for her style of dress and her manners. Realizing that she is standing in the way of Laurel's future in society, she pushes her daughter away to be with her father and his new wife and just to make sure that Laurel will never return, Stella marries a man that Laurel hates, an alcoholic/drug addict.

Brought to the screen in 1937, and played to perfection by Barbara Stanwyck, this is another instance where the book and movie are both excellent. ( )
  lsh63 | Mar 31, 2010 |
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This pulp classic of motherhood and money introduced the immortal character portrayed on film by Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Midler--"a feminist gem" (Michael Bronski).   An ambitious woman from working-class roots, Stella sets her sights on marrying rich--and hits a bullseye. But her unshakable crudeness becomes too much for her husband. When he leaves her, she keeps their daughter Laurel. And now Stella sets her sights one again--this time, on giving her daughter the life she could never achieve for herself.   Originally published in 1923, this epic tale inspired the first radio soap opera, a Broadway play, and multiple films, including the Oscar-nominated 1937 movie starring Barbara Stanwyck and the 1990 movie Stella starring Bette Midler. Stella Dallas is a razor-sharp critique of our societal obsession with the judgment of mothers, offering cultural commentary that is still shockingly relevant nearly one hundred years after its initial publication.

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