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Boston, Massachusetts | Sacrifice
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Best Actress in a Supporting Role | 1938 | Anne
Best Actress in a Leading Role | 1938 | Barbara
The movie was so popular that it became a radio serial on 25 October 1937, dramatizing the later lives of characters in the movie. The serial lasted for 18 years.
According to Anne Shirley, Barbara Stanwyck was the ultimate professional on set. "She was prepared to the very top of her ability. Dialogue learned perfectly. Hair, clothes, energy ready."
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).
Barbara Stanwyck underwent a physical transformation to play her role, in which she ages some 15 or 20 years. For the first and only time in her career, she bleached her hair. In other movies where she appears blonde, she is wearing a wig - and she does don them for certain scenes here. But she wanted to use her own hair whenever possible. Wearing wigs, she said, would mean that "I couldn't do anything with my hands, like running them through my hair. Furthermore, in her home Stella's hair was neglected, unkempt - and that just can't be done realistically except with one's own hair." Goldwyn's head designer, Omar Kiam, outfitted her with some outrageously tacky costumes that reflected her character's lack of taste. Late in the film, he added lumpy padding to her torso and legs. She wore five pairs of hose to make her ankles look thick, and at times her cheeks were stuffed with cotton. "It was a matter of upholstery," Stanwyck later laughed.
Of his working relationship with Barbara Stanwyck, King Vidor had this to say: "Where sympathy exists and respect exists between director and actress, it cuts out a lot of talk, and certainly no arguments are necessary, and they fulfill their parts... I think it's a question of love. I think if love exists - admiration - love exists between director and actress, which I felt - I felt a deep feeling of love - it's like a family functioning. It's like a husband and wife functioning." Stanwyck's evaluation of their working relationship was more pragmatic: "King did his job, and I did mine."
"Stella Martin 'Stell' Dallas: I've always been known to have a stack of style!"
"Helen Morrison: Stephen, Laurel is here. She's here to stay. Who has accomplished it? Couldn't you read between those pitiful lines?"
