Stella

Stella (1950)

A Gal Who Tried to Be Good...(Is That Bad?)

Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.

Date of release
1950-07-20
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 23m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Claude Binyon

Casting

Interesting facts

Stella is a 1950 American black comedy film directed by Claude Binyon and starring Ann Sheridan, Victor Mature and Leif Erickson.

Production

The novel Family Skeleton by Doris Miles Disney was published in 1949. The New York Times described the book as "half humorous... not a mystery, hardly even a murder novel, and certainly not the light farce suggested by the publisher's grinning skull symbol." Hero Jeff di Marco later appeared in Disney's Straw Man in 1951.

The film was known as Stella and the City Man. Susan Hayward was meant to play the title role but refused and was put on suspension. Ann Sheridan replaced her. Filming started in March 1950.

Stella was Hobart Cavanaugh's last film; he knew he did not have long to live and collapsed twice on set, but was determined to see it through.

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