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Fay was a drunk, an anti-Semite, and a wife-beater, and Barbara [Stanwyck] had had to endure all of that", [4] while according to actor and comedian Milton Berle "Fay's friends could be counted on the missing arm of a one-armed man." Berle, who was Jewish, claimed to have once hit Fay in the face with a stage brace after Fay, on seeing Berle ...
Barbara Stanwyck (/ ˈ s t æ n w ɪ k /; born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress 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.
Some film historians believe that the marriage of Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay was the film's real-life inspiration. John Bowers has also been identified as the inspiration for the Norman Maine character and the dramatic suicide-by-drowning scene near the end of the film (Bowers drowned in November 1936).
Film industry clients included "Jackie Coogan's mother" and Barbara Stanwyck. Cradick represented Stanwyck in her custody dispute with Frank Fay; according to a January 1938 news report, "Under an order issued last week by Superior Judge Goodwin J. Knight, Fay was given the right to see the son, Anthony Dion, twice a week. Charles W. Cradick ...
The Stolen Jools is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy short produced by the Masquers Club of Hollywood, featuring many cameo appearances by film stars of the day. The stars appeared in the film, distributed by Paramount Pictures, to raise funds for the National Vaudeville Artists Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
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)
Ladies of Leisure is a 1930 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Ralph Graves.The screenplay by Jo Swerling is based on the 1924 play Ladies of the Evening by Milton Herbert Gropper, which ran for 159 performances on Broadway.
It was the film debut of June Collyer, Barbara Stanwyck and Ann Sothern. [2] [3] [4] Cast. Sam Hardy as Johnny Fay; Lois Wilson as Fanny Franchette; Philip Strange as ...