Barbara Stanwyck
Acting
Biography
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress. A film and television star, she was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence and was a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award four times, and won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. She was the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the Motion Picture Academy, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Screen Actors Guild, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is ranked as the eleventh greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
Born: July 16, 1907
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War II, the majority used their talents to rally the American public through bond sales, morale-boosting USO tours, patriotic war dramas and escapist film fare. Comedian David Steinberg plays host for this star-studded, 90-minute documentary, which looks at the way Tinseltown helped the United States' war effort.
Double Indemnity
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
Citizen Jane Fonda
Very few Icons have at once embodied the Myths of their own country while revealing its contradictions: heiress of the Hollywood star system and muse of the French auteur Cinema, Academy Award winning actress and committed producer, feminist and aerobic queen, activist and fearless businesswoman… In a lifetime, Jane Fonda may have reconciled all the facets of America without renouncing her own integrity. Through her portrait, the film tells a social and political story while drawing the picture of a typically American phenomenon.
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellent reviews for a bit part in a Broadway play — and she had a new name: Barbara Stanwyck.
Ball of Fire
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Remember the Night
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
Meet John Doe
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.
Hollywood Canteen
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well briefed Mid-Western bank robbers based in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The Lady Eve
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Filmography
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as Various Roles (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Nan Taylor (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Jessica Drummond (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Constance Colby
as Mary Carson
as (archive footage)
as (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage)
as Constance Colby
as Toni Blake
as Self (archive footage)
as Geraldine Parkington
as Self (archive footage)
as Miriam Jennings
as Ruth Bennett
as Victoria Barkley
as Irene Trent
as Maggie Morgan
as Abby Rayner
as Jo Courtney
as Irene Phillips
as Self - Host/Josephine Little
as Elizabeth Mowry
as Marian Andres
as Maggie Wenley
as Dr. Susan Bryce
as Stella King
as Liz Randall
as Ella Cahill
as Josephine Little
as Harriet Melvane
as Amanda Prescott
as Fanny Evans
as Rachel Harrison
as Hazel Wexley
as Fran Elick
as Maggie McClay
as Avis Fleming
as Nellie Bly
as Paula Manning
as Alicia
as Amelia Lambert
as Louise Forest
as Sister Thomas Aquinas
as Syd Charing
as Chris Mathews
as Trixie Callahan
as Carolyn Callendar
as Cara Lester
as Margot LaChelle
as Janet Jones
as Madge Terry
as Self - Host
as Nora Holloway
as Caroline Casteel
as Jessica Drummond
as Cora Sutliff
as Kathy Ferguson
as Belle Garrison
as Regan Moore
as Julie Holman
as Leona Butler
as Ann Dempster
as Kit Banion
as Norma Miller Vale
as Gwen Moore
as Martha Wilkison
as Sierra Nevada Jones
as Julia O. Tredway
as Cheryl Draper
as Marina Conway
as Self - Guest Host
as Rela
as Naomi Murdoch
as Julia Sturges
as Helen Stilwin
as Self
as Lili Parrish
as Mae Doyle D'Amato
as Lorna Bounty
as Regina Forbes
as Vance Jeffords
as Helen Ferguson
as Jessie Bourne
as Thelma Jordon
as Joan Phillips Boothe
as Leona Cotterell Stevenson
as Pauline 'Polly' Fulton Brett
as Barbara Stanwyck
as Sandra Marshall
as Karen Duncan
as Sally Morton Carroll
as Lily Bishop
as Martha Ivers
as Sally Warren
as Jessica Drummond
as Barbara Stanwyck
as Elizabeth Lane
as Self
as Self
as Phyllis Dietrichson
as Joan Stanley (segment 3)
as Dixie Daisy
as Self
as Fiona Gaylord
as Sugarpuss O’Shea
as Hannah Sempler Hoyt
as Helen Hunt
as Ann Mitchell
as Jean Harrington
as Lee Leander/Anna Rose Malone
as Lorna Moon
as Mollie Monahan
as Melsa Manton
as Self
as Margot Weston
as Valentine Ransome
as Stella Dallas
as Lil Duryea
as Janet Haley
as Nora Clitheroe
as Pearl Elliott Holley
as Rita Wilson Claybourne
as Carolyn Martin
as Raphaelita Maderos
as Annie Oakley
as Drue Van Allen
as Shelby Barret Wyatt
as Ruth Vincent
as Marian Ormsby Forrester
as Jennifer Lady Lee
as Mary Archer Wilbrandt
as Lily Powers
as Nan Taylor
as Megan Davis
as Joan Gordon Gilson
as Herself
as Selina Peake De Jong
as Kitty Lane
as Lulu Smith
as Florence Fallon
as Lora Hart
as Self
as Mrs. Frank Fay
as Anne Vincent
as Barbara O'Neill
as Kay Arnold
as Mexicali Rose
as Ann Carter