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Sued. By Cinemactress Barbara Stanwyck: her onetime husband, Funnyman Frank Fay; for a division of joint property held at the time of their divorce in December 1935; in Los Angeles...
Stella Dallas (Samuel Goldwyn) exhibits an aspect of class struggle which has recently been overlooked: the aspect of simple social climbing. Stella Martin (Barbara Stanwyck) is the daughter of one millworker and the sister of another but when an eccentric Harvard socialite comes to Millhampton and goes to work in his shirt sleeves, she sees a chance for advancement. Soon Stella and Stephen Dallas (John Boles) are married and the parents of a dimpled baby girl, whom they name Laurel...
...President McKinley to investigate the operations of a band of Midwest bank-robbers whose uncanny efficiency suggests that they are in league with Government officials. Lieutenant Perry gets off to a flying start by falling in love with the gang's most eligible female member, Lil Duryea (Barbara Stanwyck) and is on the way to a brilliant solution of the case when President McKinley is shot, leaving Perry with no proof that he is a Government agent. Getting Perry out of jail entails the assistance not only of Lil but also of President Theodore Roosevelt and Admiral Dewey...
Hollywood showed the world last week how to stage a prize fight. Tom Gallery, onetime cinemactor and onetime husband of ZaSu Pitts, promoted it. Walter Winchell and Gene Fowler reported it. It was watched by Clark Gable & Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power & Sonja Henie, Robert Taylor & Barbara Stanwyck. It caused Constance Bennett to screech and Darryl Zanuck to wear his Tyrolean hat. Ringside seats at Wrigley Field cost $100.* It was enhanced by an airplane with a streamer advertising Kid Galahad (TIME...
Plot B is about Janet Haley (Barbara Stanwyck) just out of jail and trying to find her baby daughter, whom her bank-robber husband hid in some unknown place before he was shot. A gangster named Innes (Stanley Ridges) tells her he will lead her to her baby for $1,000 or her "friendship." When she tries to steal the $1,000 Gangster Hanlon has sent to Interne Kildare, Kildare foils her, learns her story, falls in love and gets Hanlon to capture Innes, who is seriously wounded. Kildare performs another emergency operation and Hanlon forces Innes to reveal that...