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Hey Stella! Barbara StanwyckPublicity Still for Stella Dallas "Offhand how many girls or women whose names are Stella can you name? Not very many we think. However we may be wrong and perhaps you can rattle off the names of 10. So if you name happens to be Stella you don't have to go any furthe read more

Keeping time with Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor Robert Taylor Barbara Stanwyck Original Vintage Transparency Rare Photo Fans spent several years watching what would happen with Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck. Couldn't she have a dance with the man at a club without all the papers sayi read more

Victoria Wilson should receive a medal, or at least a hug for what she’s accomplished with A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True.  An over ten-year effort yielded a 1,000 pages of Stanwyck information in the first of a proposed series of biographies recounting the exploits, professional and read more

If you’ve ever had any questions about the life of Barbara Stanwyck, Victoria Wilson’s “A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel True 1907-1940″ is bound to have the answers. At over 800 pages long, “Steel True” is the very definition of an extensive biography.  (Keep in read more

Book Look! A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 by Victoria Wilson A Life of Barbara Stanwyck is available on amazon.ca Simply put, this book is a whopper! I may have even used it once or twice as a weight. Clocking in at just over 1000 pages, this biography is one of the most i read more

A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940 Victoria Wilson Simon & Schuster, 2013 It's impossible not to ask the question: how can you justify writing 1,000 pages about thirty-three years of a life? The answer is both intimate and grand. Stanwyck is uniquely worthy of careful attention for h read more

Steel-True and Blade-Straight: An Interview with Victoria Wilson Oh Happy Day! The long-awaited and highly-anticipated Barbara Stanwyck biography,  A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940, is in stores today, November 12th — and CMH is honored to be able to present this interview with read more

New Barbara Stanwyck biography out this month A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 by Victoria Wilson comes out this month. I’m looking forward to reading and reviewing it, but thought I’d post the description of the first part of the two-part biography from Amazon fo read more

By Lara Gabrielle Fowler The life of Barbara Stanwyck has fascinated film lovers for decades. Her particular combination of sex appeal, toughness, and grit makes for an intriguing character and was doubtless informed by a private life about which she was extremely reticent. This, along with innate read more

The Girl With the White Parasol blog is hosting a Barbara Stanwyck blogathon and nearly fifty bloggers have contributed posts about Ms. Stanwyck's films and her career. A testament to her continuing popularity. Barbara Stanwyck is a wonderful actress and my family and I enjoy watching her films when read more

This post is my entry in the Barbara Stanwyck blogathon hosted by The Girl with the White Parasol. Go to her site to check out the rest of this amazing event. The idea of a woman empowering herself by polishing her appearance is familiar in the movies. Just think of The Women (1939), where gettin read more

The Girl With the White Parasol blog is hosting a Barbara Stanwyck blogathon and nearly fifty bloggers have contributed posts about Ms. Stanwyck's films and her career. A testament to her continuing popularity. Barbara Stanwyck is a wonderful actress and my family and I enjoy watching her films when read more

Hey! There's a Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon going on, courtesy of Aubyn at The Girl with the White Parasol. My entry is about Stanwyck's 1933 women-in-prison film, Ladies They Talk About. read more

  Barbara Stanwyck: Double Indemnity  Some actors are born to play a certain type. The word type-cast does exist for a reason.  Some are gruff and cast as cops, while others are wise and cast as grandfathers. This, however, was not the case for Barbara Stanwyck‘s Phyllis Dietrichson when read more

Hey! There's a Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon going on, courtesy of Aubyn at The Girl with the White Parasol. My entry is about Stanwyck's 1933 women-in-prison film, Ladies They Talk About. read more

The Girl With the White Parasol blog is hosting a Barbara Stanwyck blogathon and nearly fifty bloggers have contributed posts about Ms. Stanwyck's films and her career. A testament to her continuing popularity. Barbara Stanwyck is a wonderful actress and my family and I enjoy watching her films when read more

“One of the best actresses I ever worked with.” –Joel McCrea Over the course of twenty-three years–from 1934′s Gambling Lady through 1957′s Trooper Hook–Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea starred in six films together. By all accounts, the two of them formed read more

Barbara Stanwyck: A Lady or a Liar? Labels: Barbara Stanwyck, blogathon Just this past December, I profiled TCM's then star of the month, Barbara Stanwyck, or "Babs from Brooklyn." The sassy broad is back again for the Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon, hosted by The Girl with the White P read more

Just this past December, I profiled TCM’s then star of the month, Barbara Stanwyck, or “Babs from Brooklyn.” The sassy broad is back again for the Barbara Stanwyck Blogathon, hosted by The Girl with the White Parasol. Barbara Stanwyck played her share of angelic mothers and the lik read more

If you’re at all familiar with my posts on this site, you probably know that I usually end them by recommending that you see the movie on which I’m writing, adding that you “only owe it to yourself.” Well, this time, I’m starting my post that way. Have you seen Forbidden? It’s a 1932 Barbara read more