Samuel Goldwyn would have preferred Ruth Chatterton for the title role, but she turned it down, having just played a less-than-perfect wife in Dodsworth (1936).Mabel Colcord is listed in studio records as an actress in this movie but did not appear. Al Shean, Lillian West and Mildred Gover were in Hollywood Reporter production charts, but also did not appear in the movie.
The movie was so popular it became a radio serial on 25 October 1937, dramatizing the later lives of characters in the movie. The serial lasted for eighteen years.
The play version written by Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Gertrude Purcell had no Broadway, New York run.
Frances Farmer was suggested for the part of the daughter, but producer Samuel Goldwyn was not keen after having clashed with Farmer on his previous Come and Get It (1936).
Cast of Stella Dallas
Barbara Stanwyck as Stella (Martin) Dallas
John Boles as Stephen Dallas
Anne Shirley as Laurel Dallas
Barbara O'Neil as Helen (Morrison) Dallas
Alan Hale as Ed Munn
Marjorie Main as Mrs. Martin
Tim Holt as Richard Grosvenor, III
George Wolcott as Charlie Martin
Hattie McDaniel as Maid
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