![]() Stella herself once had hoped to join the upper class. She has orchestrated her daughter's life for just this moment. ![]() More significantly, Stella has been in charge all along. Even so, she asserts her authority, insisting that the policeman let her take one more look. Instead of giving Laurel away or hosting the reception, she is a spectator, and only for a moment at that, shooed along by a cop. ![]() She is literally an outsider at her own daughter's wedding. In the heartbreaking final scene, Stella looks through a window in the rain to get a glimpse of Laurel on her wedding day. ![]() In "Stella Dallas," one of Barbara Stanwyck's signature roles, the actress plays a lower-class woman who gives up her daughter, Laurel, so the daughter can have a chance at a better life with her wealthy father and stepmother. ![]()
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