Cinema Club: Stella Dallas (U)
Electric Medway Cinema Club presents... Stella Dallas (1937)
Celebrate the golden age of cinema with Stella Dallas (1937) as part of the BFI's Too Much: Melodrama on Film Season.
Too Much: Melodrama on Film - Invites audiences to follow their emotions and get swept away by the big screen experience.
🎞️ Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Annie Shirley and John Boles. After divorcing a high society man, Stella Martin, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for her daughter.
A reading by Sam Rapp
Before the film, local poet Sam Rapp will be reading excerpts from the Stella Dallas novel between 7.15pm-7.30pm.
Programme
6.45pm Doors open
7.15pm-7.30pm Reading by Sam Rapp
7.30pm Main Event
9.15pm End (approx.)
About Cinema Club
Founded in Spring 2025, bringing the best of indie cinema and more to Medway, Electric Medway Cinema Club is chance to catch the movies that may have passed you by, or you would never have considered seeing!
Cinema Club events may start with an XR short - such as a film, virtual reality or augmented reality experience - all commissioned by Electric Medway and from local creators. You'll get an idea of both the work we do and the talent in the area. There will be opportunity to discuss the feature film afterwards.
Acknowledgement: This event is funded by BFI Film Audience Network and Medway Lottery Community Fund, with partner support from Huguenot Museum and Cinema for All. Photos by Alex Litvin on Unsplash and Felipe Bustillo on Unsplash.
About Sam Rapp
Sam is a Medway-based neurodiverse writer and lawyer, raising awareness about non-visible disabilities. She currently advises as a Board member for Electric Medway.
An award-winning poet and playwright as The Dyslexic Poet, Sam is also a speaker and performer, a former Ambassador for Medway Disability Action, and former Co-Chair for Creative Medway. Sam is Co-Founder of Medway Writes, and her company Fun With Words Productions offers creative writing workshops for families.
Sam’s book Rant: Dyslexic Me (2018) is a collection of poems that capture Sam's personal experiences of being dyslexic, and charts her voyage of self-discovery from her experiences as a child through to adulthood. She won the Crisis Homeless Charity UK Poetry Slam (2017) and Positive About Dyslexia Competition (2018).