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Barbara Stanwyck (/ ˈ s t æ n w ɪ k /; born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model and dancer. A stage, film, and television star, during her 60-year professional career she was known for her strong, realistic screen presence and versatility.
After dating her for three years, Taylor married Barbara Stanwyck on May 14, 1939, in San Diego, California. Zeppo Marx's wife, Marion, was Stanwyck's matron of honor. Stanwyck's surrogate father—he was her sister Millie's husband—and personal assistant, vaudevillian Buck Mack, was Taylor's best man. [15]
Fay married Barbara Stanwyck in 1928, when she was relatively unknown. He helped her further her career in films, and she was given a contract by Warner Bros. late in 1930. Their only film appearance together was a brief skit in the short film The Stolen Jools (1931).
Stanwyck on the cover of the September 1931 Photoplay magazine Stanwyck in Stella Dallas (1937) Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire (1941) Lobby poster of Fred MacMurray, Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity (1944) James Mason, Ava Gardner, and Stanwyck in East Side, West Side advertisement in Modern Screen magazine (1949)
The black-and-white film stars Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan as a married couple, and Ralph Meeker as an escaped convict. The film was based on the 22-minute radio play "A Question of Time". [4] Award-winning cinematographer Victor Milner, in addition to photographing the film, has a bit part in the movie.
His Brother's Wife is a 1936 American romantic drama film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor.Written by Leon Gordon and John Meehan, based on a story by George Auerbach, the film is about a scientist preparing to leave for the jungles of South America to work on a cure for spotted fever.
The caprice involves Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, S. Z. Sakall and a couple of babies who, though too young to know any better, are going to have quite a time living it down." [14] In 1946, high school principal Dean Lobaugh alleged that the film "is quite unsound and dangerous to the morals of the American people."
Stella Dallas is a 1937 American drama film based on Olive Higgins Prouty's 1923 novel of the same name.It was directed by King Vidor and stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, and Anne Shirley.