Stella Dallas (1925 film)

Stella Dallas
Film poster
Directed byHenry King
Written byFrances Marion
Based onStella Dallas
1923 novel
by Olive Higgins Prouty
Produced bySamuel Goldwyn
StarringRonald Colman
Belle Bennett
Lois Moran
CinematographyArthur Edeson
Edited byStuart Heisler
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • November 16, 1925 (1925-11-16)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Budget$500,000[1]
Box office$1.5 million[2]
The full film

Stella Dallas is a 1925 American silent drama film that was produced by Samuel Goldwyn, adapted by Frances Marion, and directed by Henry King. The film stars Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Lois Moran, Alice Joyce, Jean Hersholt, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.[3][4] Prints of the film survive in several film archives.[5]

This was the first feature film adaptation of the 1923 novel Stella Dallas by Olive Higgins Prouty. Subsequent film versions were Stella Dallas (1937) and Stella (1990).

  1. ^ "Inside Stuff". Variety. October 21, 1925. p. 37. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  2. ^ Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (1938) p. 942 accessed April 19, 2014
  3. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Stella Dallas
  4. ^ Stella Dallas at The Alice Joyce Website, by Greta De Groat
  5. ^ "Stella Dallas". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.