Stella

Stella is a 1950 American black comedy film directed by Claude Binyon and starring Ann Sheridan, Victor Mature and Leif Erickson. Plot When a relative dies in an accident, family members worry that they will be suspected of murder, so they bury the body, but that does not solve anything. Cast Ann Sheridan as Stella Bevans Victor Mature as Jeff DeMarco Leif Erickson as Fred Anderson Jr. David Wayne as Carl Granger Randy Stuart as Claire Marion Marshall as Mary Frank Fontaine as Don Evelyn Varden as Flora Lea Penman as Mrs. Calhoun Joyce MacKenzie as Peggy Denny Hobart Cavanaugh as Tim Gross 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.