A mother from humble beginnings gives up her own happiness so her daughter can enter a more privileged world and build a better future.

This Lux Radio Theatre broadcast aired on October 11, 1937. It is listed as episode 37 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil, and Bruce Satterlee. Other credited names include Frank Woodruff as director, Harry Wagstaff as radio adaptor, Gertrude Purcell as radio adaptor, Melville Ruick as announcer, and Frank Nelson as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 60 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Lux.

This version dramatizes Stella Dallas. Olive Higgins Prouty is credited as author, Frances Marion is credited as screenwriter, and Sarah Y. Mason is credited as screenwriter.

A major dramatic anthology adapting popular motion pictures and stage works for radio, usually with prominent Hollywood actors and often with stars recreating their film roles.