Stella Dallas is a 1937 American English-language Drama Romance motion picture featuring Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'neil, Alan Hale, Marjorie Main and Lillian Yarbo. The movie is inspired from Stella Dallas 1923 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future. Samuel Goldwyn Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Samuel Goldwyn. Stella Dallas is written by Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman, Olive Higgins Prouty, Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Gertrude Purcell and Joe Bigelow and it is directed by King Vidor. United Artists acquired the distribution rights for the movie. The motion picture has a running time of 106 minutes. Cinematography was done by Rudolph Mat and editing by Sherman Todd. The music was composed by Alfred Newman.