Stella Dallas (United Artists, 1937) (1937)

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TICKET-SELLING NEWSPAPER TTERE are your topnotch newspapers art drawings on ‘‘Stella Dallas”. . . every one a product of a well-known artist’s pencil or brush . . . every one a strong show-selling plant for your picture! The artists who give you these sketches are nationally known illustrators for big- time magazines and newspapers. There is no question about the effectiveness of these drawings in impressing readers with the entertainment value of “Stella Dallas.” It’s up to you to get space for this outstanding art by contacting editors in your town and seeing that they run these drawings! Bert Sharkey sketches Barbara Stanwyck and John Boles with his dis¬ tinctive line, portraying Stanwyck in the flashy finery that characterizes her role as the unhappy “Stella Dallas.” Order 2-Col. Mat No. 22—20c (Cut—50c) 3-Col. Mat No. 18—30c (Cut—75c) 2- Col. Mat No. 23—20c (Cut—50c) 3- Col. Mat No. 19—30c (Cut—75c) Willard Downes silhouettes Stella and the man she marries in an idyllic picnic scene—one of the earlier sequences of the picture before her troubles have begun. Order 2-Col. Mat No. 21—20c (C.iit—50c) ; or 3-Col. Mat No. 17—30c (Cut—75c) Another vivid portrait of the two principals, done by Artist Walters, in which Stella is shown as the fresh young small-town girl who was so delightful before she became a social climber. Page Eight