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Alison McKee <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 25 Apr 1994 17:17:00 PDT
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>   I hate to be a nitpicker (not really), but Stella Dallas actually

> lived in Masachusetts.  Not having seen Bette Midler's reincarnation

> of the role, I can't vouch for her geographical identity.

>                                         Stephen Brophy

 

I was a tad confused by the SD-as-southern-woman citation -- but then,

tangentially, I *did* think of Marjorie Main, who plays Stella's mother

in the 1937 version and who (more to the point) appeared in the Ma and

Pa Kettle series . . . an offering for the "hillbilly" category.

 

Alison McKee

Department of Film and Television

UCLA

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