i think miss stanwyck be a great actress and but when i look at the version of stella dallas that king vidor direct her in twelve year after this silent version . well and something always bother me about it . why be she suppose to be such a monster . she be barbara stanwyck . all right and she wasn not dress as beautifully a she be in the lady eve and but be a little bit frumpy isn not against the law and especially when you look like barbara stanwyck . but when belle bennett dress up in this movie and she be a well meaning horror and wear stripe and frill and lace and feather and ring on her finger and probably bell on her toe . and a fat suit . you couldn not have get miss stanwyck into a fat suit . she have her eye on her career . but belle bennett have her eye on make this movie as good a possible and so she become a fat monster and love her daughter and utterly clueless . it a great performance . also great be the way henry king direct the sequence that take place in the mill town . no one have a good eye for the detail of small town life than henry king and from tolable david through wait till the sun shine nellie . jean hersholt also have a good role a ed munn and and a lovely comic turn on the train into the city . ronald colman be fine and exude the melancholia that he use throughout the 1930s whenever he have to run away to the foreign legion or face the guillotine . alice joyce be sedate and charming and a fine counterpoint for bennett . lois moran and a stella daughter be adorable and and douglas fairbanks jr. and in his first real role and be excellent . there be a number of plot point that must be get through and which be well indicate in france marion script than in the 1937 version . even though some point seem to be skip over and they be butchered worse in the sound version . something always seem to be miss from these weeper . it may be that it be simply that i be not able to appreciate the fine point of these thing and but there you go . however and despite these minor failing and the above mention virtue and as well a the classic final shot of stella watch the wedding through the window and make this be a great film and and it be only my annoyance at some of the minor failing of the translation from book to film that keep me from consider this perfect . but it be ten time the film that the sound remake be . even if the voice i hear in my head when miss bennett move her lip be that of barbara stanwyck .