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Barbara Stanwyck Biography and Filmography
Barbara Stanwyck
Birthday: July 16, 1907
Birth Place: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height: 5' 5"
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Biography
In an industry of prima donnas, actress Barbara Stanwyck was universally recognized as a consummate professional; a supremely versatile performer, her strong screen presence established her as a favorite of directors, including Cecil B. De Mille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. Born Ruby Stevens July 16, 1907, in Brooklyn, NY, she was left orphaned at the age of four and raised by her showgirl sister. Upon quitting school a decade later, she began dancing in local speakeasies and at the age of 15 became a Ziegfeld chorus girl. In 1926, Stanwyck made her Broadway debut in The Noose, becoming a major stage star in her next production, Burlesque. MGM requested a screen test, but she rejected the offer. She did, however, agree to a supporting role in 1927's Broadway Nights, and after completing her stage run in 1929 appeared in the drama The Locked Door. With her husband, comedian Frank Fay, Stanwyck traveled to Hollywood. After unsuccessfully testing at Warner Bros., she appeared in Columbia's low-budget Mexicali Rose, followed in 1930 by Capra's Ladies of Leisure, the picture which shot her to stardom. A long-term Columbia contract was the result, and the studio soon loaned Stanwyck to Warners for 1931's Illicit. It was a hit, as was the follow-up Ten Cents a Dance. Reviewers were quite taken with her, and with a series of successful pictures under her belt, she sued Columbia for a bigger salary; a deal was struck to share her with Warners, and she split her time between the two studios for pictures including Miracle Woman, Night Nurse, and Forbidden, a major hit which established her among the most popular actresses in Hollywood. Over the course of films like 1932's Shopworn, Ladies They Talk About, and Baby Face, Stanwyck developed an image as a working girl, tough-minded and often amoral, rarely meeting a happy ending; melodramas including 1934's Gambling Lady and the following year's The Woman in Red further established the persona, and in Red Salute she even appeared as a student flirting with communism. Signing with RKO, Stanwyck starred as Annie Oakley; however, her contract with the studio was non-exclusive, and she also entered into a series of multi-picture deals with the likes of Fox (1936's A Message to Garcia) and MGM (His Brother's Wife, co-starring Robert Taylor, whom she later married).For 1937's Stella Dallas, Stanwyck scored the first of four Academy Award nominations. Refusing to be typecast, she then starred in a screwball comedy, Breakfast for Two, followed respectively by the downcast 1938 drama Always Goodbye and the caper comedy The Mad Miss Manton. After the 1939 De Mille Western Union Pacific, she co-starred with William Holden in Golden Boy, and with Henry Fonda she starred in Preston Sturges' outstanding The Lady Eve. For the 1941 Howard Hawks comedy Ball of Fire, Stanwyck earned her second Oscar nomination. Another superior film, Capra's Meet John Doe, completed a very successful year. Drama was the order of the day for the next few years, as she starred in pictures like The Gay Sisters and The Great Man's Lady. In 1944, she delivered perhaps her most stunning performance in Billy Wilder's classic noir Double Indemnity. Stanwyck's stunning turn as a femme fatale secured her a third Oscar bid and helped make her, according to the IRS, the highest-paid woman in America. It also won her roles in several of the decade's other great film noirs, including 1946's The Strange Love of Martha Ivers and 1949's The File on Thelma Jordon. In between, Stanwyck also starred in the 1948 thriller Sorry, Wrong Number, her final Academy Award-nominated performance. The 1950s, however, were far less kind, and strong roles came her way with increasing rarity. With Anthony Mann she made The Furies and with Lang she appeared opposite Marilyn Monroe in 1952's Clash by Night, but much of her material found her typecast — in 1953's All I Desire, she portrayed a heartbroken mother not far removed from the far superior Stella Dallas, while in 1954's Blowing Wild she was yet another tough-as-nails, independent woman. Outside of the all-star Executive Suite, Stanwyck did not appear in another major hit; she let her hair go gray, further reducing her chances of winning plum parts, and found herself cast in a series of low-budget Westerns. Only Samuel Fuller's 1957 picture Forty Guns, a film much revered by the Cahiers du Cinema staff, was of any particular notice. It was also her last film for five years. In 1960, she turned to television to host The Barbara Stanwyck Show, winning an Emmy for her work.Stanwyck returned to cinemas in 1962, portraying a lesbian madam in the controversial Walk on the Wild Side. Two years later, she co-starred with Elvis Presley in Roustabout. That same year, she appeared in the thriller The Night Walker, and with that, her feature career was over. After rejecting a role in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, she returned to television to star in the long-running Western series The Big Valley, earning another Emmy for her performance as the matriarch of a frontier family. Upon the show's conclusion, Stanwyck made a TV movie, The House That Would Not Die. She then appeared in two more, 1971's A Taste of Evil and 1973's The Letters, before vanishing from the public eye for the remainder of the decade. In 1981, she was awarded an honorary Oscar; two years later, she was also the recipient of a Lincoln Center Life Achievement Award. Also in 1983, Stanwyck returned to television to co-star in the popular miniseries The Thorn Birds. Two years later, she headlined The Colbys, a spin-off of the hugely successful nighttime soap opera Dynasty. It was her last project before retiring. Stanwyck died January 20, 1990.
Filmography
The Man (1985)
The Californians (1985)
The Letters (1973)
[ Leslie Ann ][ Lorraine Burnett ][ Pamela Franklin ]
A Taste of Evil (1971)
[ Barbara Parkins ]
The House That Would Not Die (1970)
Flight from San Miguel (1969)
[ Linda Evans ]
Danger Road (1969)
[ Linda Evans ]
Town of No Exit (1969)
[ Linda Evans ]
The Other Face of Justice (1969)
[ Linda Evans ]
The Night Walker (1964)
Roustabout (1964)
[ Raquel Welch ][ Teri Garr ][ Sue Ann Langdon ][ Marianna Hill ][ Joy Harmon ]
The Molly Kincaid Story (1963)
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
[ Jane Fonda ][ Anne Baxter ][ Juanita Moore ]
The Caroline Casteel Story (1962)
Elegy (1962)
The Hitch-Hiker (1961)
Triple C (1961)
The Assassin (1961)
Little Big Mouth (1961)
The Maud Frazer Story (1961)
Hang the Heart High (1959)
Trail to Nowhere (1958)
The Freighter (1958)
Trooper Hook (1957)
[ Susan Kohner ]
Sentence Deferred (1957)
Crime of Passion (1957)
[ Fay Wray ]
Forty Guns (1957)
[ Ziva Rodann ]
These Wilder Years (1956)
[ James Cagney ]
The Maverick Queen (1956)
There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
Escape to Burma (1955)
The Violent Men (1955)
My Uncle O'Moore (1955)
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
Executive Suite (1954)
[ Shelley Winters ][ June Allyson ]
Witness to Murder (1954)
[ Juanita Moore ][ Elaine Reynolds ]
Blowing Wild (1953)
The Moonlighter (1953)
[ Dolores Trull ]
All I Desire (1953)
[ Maureen O'Sullivan ]
Titanic (1953)
Jeopardy (1953)
Clash by Night (1952)
[ Marilyn Monroe ]
The Man with a Cloak (1951)
[ Leslie Caron ]
To Please a Lady (1950)
The Furies (1950)
No Man of Her Own (1950)
The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
East Side, West Side (1949)
[ Ava Gardener ][ Cyd Charisse ]
The Lady Gambles (1949)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
B.F.'s Daughter (1948)
Cry Wolf (1947)
The Other Love (1947)
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
California (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
[ Lizabeth Scott ]
The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
[ Natalie Wood ]
My Reputation (1946)
[ Eve Arden ]
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
Lady of Burlesque (1943)
The Great Man's Lady (1942)
The Gay Sisters (1942)
Ball of Fire (1941)
You Belong to Me (1941)
Meet John Doe (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Remember the Night (1940)
Golden Boy (1939)
Union Pacific (1939)
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
[ Hattie McDaniel ]
Always Goodbye (1938)
Breakfast for Two (1937)
Stella Dallas (1937)
[ Hattie McDaniel ]
This Is My Affair (1937)
Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
[ Yvonne Keeley ]
His Brother's Wife (1936)
The Bride Walks Out (1936)
[ Hattie McDaniel ]
A Message to Garcia (1936)
The Plough and the Stars (1936)
Banjo on My Knee (1936)
Annie Oakley (1935)
Red Salute (1935)
The Woman in Red (1935)
The Secret Bride (1934)
A Lost Lady (1934)
Gambling Lady (1934)
Ever in My Heart (1933)
Baby Face (1933)
[ Foby Wing ]
Ladies They Talk About (1933)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Forbidden (1932)
The Purchase Price (1932)
So Big! (1932)
[ Betty Davis ]
Shopworn (1932)
The Miracle Woman (1931)
Night Nurse (1931)
[ Joan Blondell ]
Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
Illicit (1931)
[ Joan Blondell ]
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
Mexicali Rose (1929)
The Locked Door (1929)
[ Paulette Goddard ]
Broadway Nights (1927)
Trivia
  • Godmother of Bobbie Poledouris.
  • Sister-in-law of actress Caryl Lincoln.
  • Her stage name was inspired by a theatric poster that read "Jane Stanwyck in 'Barbara Freitchie.'"
  • Her nickname among co-workers was "Missy" or "The Queen."
  • In 1944, the government listed her as the nation's highest-paid woman, earning 0,000.
  • Often called "The Best Actress Who Never Won an Oscar."
  • According to biographical film Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire (1991) (TV), Stanwyck became a model for women actors. Such stars as Sally Field and Virginia Madsen have publically pointed to Stanwyck as their model.
  • American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. [1987]
  • Sister of actor Bert Stevens.
  • In the early 1950s, made a television commercial for Lustre Creme's shampoo campaign.
  • Was of Scots-Irish and English descent.
  • Her mother died when she was accidentally knocked off a trolley by a drunk. Barbara was 4 at the time.
  • Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1973.
  • Measurements: 33 1/4-23-33 1/2 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
  • Her son, Dion Anthony "Tony" Fay, was born in February, 1932. He was adopted on December 5, 1932.
  • Worked briefly as a fashion model in the late 1920s.
  • Was listed #11 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years of The Greatest Screen Legends."
  • Her wicked turn as Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944) was ranked #8 on the American Film Institute's villains list of the "100 Years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains."
  • She was voted the 40th "Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Entertainment Weekly.
  • Her stormy marriage to Frank Fay finally ended after a drunken brawl, during which he tossed their adopted son, Dion, into the swimming pool. Despite rumours of affairs with Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford, Stanwyck wed Robert Taylor, who had gay rumours of his own to dispel. Their marriage started off on a sour note when his possesive mother demanded he spend his wedding night with her rather than Barbara.
  • Picked up the starring role in Ball of Fire (1941) after Ginger Rogers dropped out.
  • She became estranged from her son in February, 1951.
  • She lost a kidney in 1971.
  • In 1981, she was beaten and robbed in her bedroom by an intruder who woke her up at one in the morning.
  • In 1985, her house was destroyed in a fire. She was upset to lose all of Robert Taylor's love letters.
  • She did not have a funeral and has no grave. Her ashes are scattered in Lone Pine, California.
  • Her siblings were named Maude, Mable, Mildred ("Millie"), and Malcolm Byron Stevens. Her parents were Byron and Catherine McGee Stevens.
  • Ailing, she was replaced by Susan Hayward in Heat of Anger (1972) (TV), which was to have been a pilot for a prospective TV series to be called "Fitzgerald and Pride."
  • Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1751 Vine St.
  • Graduate of Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, New York.
  • Stanwyck's papers are in the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3924, Laramie, WY 82071.
  • Turned down the role of Angela Channing of "Falcon Crest" (1981).
  • Her performance as Phyllis Dietrichson in "Double Indemnity" (1944) is ranked #98 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
  • Her performance as Phyllis Dietrichson in "Double Indemnity" (1944) is ranked #58 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
  • Was best friends for many years with Frank Sinatra's first wife, Nancy.
  • The film A Star is Born (1937) starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March is said to be modeled after Stanwyck's rise to stardom and first husband Frank Fay's descent into obscurity.

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