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 Barbara Stanwyck: Warrior Woman in Hollywood's Gender Wars
Stanwyck's Victoria Barkley was a significant development in roles for women in American popular culture; she is a Western heroine who integrates masculine and feminine characteristics, the matriarchal warrior of the mythic American West.
Despite the harsh treatment of her characters, Stanwyck's popularity with the American public and well-established star persona gave her the potential to subvert the rehabilitation of the high-ridin' woman, and thus undermine the films' overt message of the disempowerment of strong women.
In 1973, Stanwyck's impact on the Western genre and the mythic American west was recognized when she received the Wrangler Award for "Outstanding Contribution to the West through Motion Pictures" from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center and was inducted into its "Hall of Fame of Great Western Performers" (Smith 350-51).
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 Barbara Stanwyck Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Stanwyck was sassy and gave lots of lip; you got the impression she could hold her own with just about anyone.
Stanwyck was orphaned as a little girl, and maybe that contributed to the rich and volatile mixture of hard-boiled independence, determination, and vulnerability that we sensed in her.
Stanwyck could make you believe she was part of the everyday world we all live in, not just a fantasy on the silver screen.
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 Barbara Stanwyck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Katherine Stevens) (July 16 1907 - January 20 1990) was an American film and television actress.
Stanwyck starred in almost a hundred films her career and received four nominations for Academy Award for Best Actress : Stella Dallas (1937) Ball of Fire (1941) Double Indemnity (1944) and Sorry Wrong Number (1948).
During her life Stanwyck was the subject rumor that she was a lesbian and that her marriage to the Robert Taylor was a "lavender marriage" designed to the fact that both were homosexual.
www.freeglossary.com /Barbara_Stanwyck   (644 words)

  
 Barbara Stanwyck Forum @ Filmbug
Barbara Stanwyck was the most versatile actress American filmmaking has ever known.
Stanwyck was so good at her craft that she was taken for granted.
Barbara also had a compassion off film, as well as on, that honored her "Queen" by co- workers.
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 Barbara Stanwyck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American film/television actress.
Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Katherine Stevens in New York City to Byron Stevens (the son of English immigrants) and Catherine McGee (whose parents were Irish) and raised in Brooklyn, New York.
She was considerably less friendly with her younger female co-stars than the male ones, and was notorious for holding grudges against those who she believed crossed her (like Bette Davis, with whom she appeared in a movie in 1932).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Stanwyck   (1287 words)

  
 Biography for Barbara Stanwyck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Most of America's audiences see Barbara Stanwyck as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkley's on TV western "The Big Valley"; (1965), where she played Victoria.
Barbara was equally at home in diverse genres such as the melodrama Forbidden (1932) and Stella Dallas (1937), along with one of her best films, Double Indemnity (1944).
However, in 1982, Barbara was awarded an honorary Academy Award for "superlative creativity and unique contribution to the art of screen acting." Sadly, Barbara died on January 20, 1990, leaving 93 movies and a host of TV appearances as her legacy to us.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0001766/bio   (1259 words)

  
 The religion of Barbara Stanwyck, actress
Fay [Barbara Stanwyck's husband Frank Fay] went to church Sunday mornings, but insisted on having open house in the afternoon.
Charging her former husband with being of "unsound mind" and submitting ten affidavits to support her allegation, she said Frank was someone who mingled prayers and profanities: "When he passed a church, Frank would remove his hands from the wheel of a car and pray, endangering the lives of others.
She [Barbara Stanwyck] could be gracious and say she was going with the new trends or, as the divisive decade [1960s] wore on with its political assassinations, Vietnam, Woodstock, and burning cities, lash out against "the great unwashed," as she called longhairs, hippies, draft dodgers, and young women in miniskirts.
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 Double Indemnity: For Barbara Stanwyck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Stanwyck was well aware of the potential in the role of Phyllis Dietrichson in Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity”, Wilder remarked later how Barbara jumped at the chance of playing it.
Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson is an undiluted study in greed, cunning and vindictiveness.
Stanwyck brings to this role one of her greatest assets, her ability to cut out superfluous movement and direct her energy precisely where she wants it.
www.moderntimes.com /bab/di.htm   (1614 words)

  
 Images - In Focus: Barbara Stanwyck
Her characters were a forceful and somewhat crazy lot, frequently on the edge of sanity, occasionally barreling over the brink.
At this point in her career, Barbara had yet to acquire the sophisticated air and the confidence that she projected in Lady Eve or Meet John Doe (both 1941).
Whatever roles she played, Barbara Stanwyck brought a forthrightness and an immediacy to her characters that made them compelling even when they were the nastiest women on the screen.
www.imagesjournal.com /issue01/infocus/babs1.htm   (999 words)

  
 Barbara Stanwyck Tribute at Classic Movie Stars (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-4.cs.princeton.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Stevens, on July 16, 1907, in Brooklyn, New York.
Stanwyck was the youngest of five children of Catherine McGee Stevens and Byron Stevens, a bricklayer.
While playing in The Noose, Stanwyck had fallen in love with leading man Rex Cherryman, but Cherryman died unexpectedly, and in August 1928, Stanwyck married the actor-comedian Frank Fay.
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 Barbara Stanwyck at Reel Classics
Barbara Stanwyck was nominated as Best Actress four times, but didn't take a statuette home until the Academy presented her with an Honorary Award at the 1981 ceremony.
A still from GOLDEN BOY (1939), a boxing film also featuring William Holden (with Stanwyck at right), Adolphe Menjou and an Oscar-nominated score by Victor Young.
A poster from Frank Capra's MEET JOHN DOE (1941) starring Stanwyck as newspaper reporter Ann Mitchell and Gary Cooper as Long John Willoughby (a.k.a.
www.reelclassics.com /Actresses/Stanwyck/stanwyck.htm   (437 words)

  
 Barbara Stanwyck News
TCM -- Barbara Stanwyck is a classily cool murderess and Fred MacMurray is no "My Three Sons" pop.
This undated publicity photo,provided by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, shows actors Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in the 1944 noir film "Double Indemnity." The movie was released on DVD, in a...
Vintage Barbara Stanwyck in a film Pauline Kael adjudged as being "ground out by people in a desperate mood".
www.topix.net /who/barbara-stanwyck   (622 words)

  
 Elvis' Women: Barbara Stanwyck
Like Lizabeth Scott, Barbara Stanwyck was a Hollywood legend, who appeared with Elvis in a more "parental" role than a romantic lead.
Barbara and Elvis both do a pretty decent job of carrying the film though.
As Victoria Barkley, Barbara steered the popular series through four seasons, along the way, introducing TV audiences to future stars Lee Majors and Linda Evans.
elviswomen.greggers.net /stanwyck.htm   (510 words)

  
 Images - In Focus: Barbara Stanwyck
The movie starts with a stunning scene where Barbara berates the parishioners of her father’s church after they have hired a younger priest to take his place.
Forbidden is a soap opera with Barbara playing a librarian who tires of her lifeless existence and puts all her money into an ocean cruise.
In Baby Face Barbara got to test her chops in a bad girl role and she passes the test with flashing thighs and conniving schemes that would have put Mae West to shame.
www.imagesjournal.com /issue01/infocus/babs2.htm   (724 words)

  
 Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » Stanwyck, Barbara
Stanwyck plays an advice columnist who falls for and marries a cop played by (who else?) Sterling Hayden.
Hayden, perhaps the actor to play by-the-book characters, is extremely sensitive to Stanwyck’s needs — that is, when he’s not demanding ham and eggs (though not the Desert Fury variety), working long hours, growing stubble, and roughing other cops up shortly after spitting out a freshly lit cigarette.
And their scenes together display solid chemistry (what Hayden does with his hands and Stanwyck with her eyes is nothing less than amazing), particularly when juxtaposed against drab parties of husbands hanging with husbands drinking beer and wives hanging with wives getting excited about social developments.
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 Barbara Stanwyck Show TV Show - Barbara Stanwyck Show Television Show - TV.com
The Barbara Stanwyck Show was a dramatic anthology series with Miss Stanwyck as the Hostess/Star.
Tell the world what you think of Barbara Stanwyck Show, write a review for this show.
Barbara Stanwyck Show really shows a lot of potential.
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 Who was Barbara Stanwyck?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
From there, she danced in nightclubs and touring dancing troupes before she was cast as a cabaret dancer in the Broadway play "The Noose" in 1926.
Although Miss Stanwyck was nominated for awards for her outstanding roles, she never won while she was alive.
Miss Stanwyck died from congestive heart failure on January 20, 1990 in Santa Monica, California.
www.stanwyck.com /barbara.html   (313 words)

  
 Barbara Stanwyck: The Early Days
Barbara Stanwyck was talented, consistently popular and worked steadily for more than fifty years.
In these early Stanwyck films her struggle to survive is still in recent memory, but there is also a hint of the sleek, confident star to come.
Later in the year, Stanwyck starred with her friend Joan Blondell as student nurses Lora Hart and Maloney.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_actresses/93269   (518 words)

  
 A Tribute to Barbara Stanwyck
She was one of the most talented and ahead-of-her-time actresses Hollywood ever produced, and the greatest "tough broad" in classic film -- not to mention on TV.
Stanwyck's life wasn't very different from many of the characters she played.
Her awards came later in her career, with Emmys and Golden Globes for her TV roles in Big Valley, The Thorn Birds, and The Barbara Stanwyck Show.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa011600a.htm   (533 words)

  
 Barbara Stanwyck @ Filmbug UK
Barbara Stanwyck (January 20, 1907 - January 20, 1990) was an American actress.
She took her name from the name of a play, Barbara Frietchie, about a fictional Civil War heroine.
Tell us what you think of Barbara Stanwyck in the Filmbug forum...
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 The Barbara Stanwyck Archive Gallery And Review Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Barbara Was Born Ruby Katherine Stevens, On July 16, 1907, To Byron And Catherine McGee Stevens, Both Originally From Chelsea, Massachusetts, But Then Residing At 246 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. She Was The Last Of Five Siblings, Whose Names All Started With The Letter M. Maud, Mabel, Mildred, And Malcolm Byron.
Barbara's Health Failed Dramatically During The Last Five Years Of Her Life, Causing Her To Have Fewer And Fewer Friends And Visitors.
I Think Barbara Would Have Thought That This Website Dedicated To Her Was A Colossal Waste Of Time And Energy.
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 Barbara Stanwyck - MovieActors.com
Barbara Stanwyck was a unique, sultry actress who combined looks, brains, and heat, to memorable effect.
Barbara Stanwyck made a huge career out of being both tough and desirable, as alluring as any woman and as strong as any man.
Late in life Barbara Stanwyck starred in the well regarded TV series, THE BIG VALLEY.
www.movieactors.com /40stars/stanwyck.htm   (124 words)

  
 Barbara Stanwyck Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Dana Andrews, Richard Haydn, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers, S Z Sakall, Allen Jenkins, Tully Marshall, Elisha Cook Jr.
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Peter Breck, Lee Majors, Conlan Carter, Don Dubbins, Steve Franken.
Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Leif Erickson, William Conrad, John Bromfield, Harold Vermilyea, Dorothy Neumann.
www.tv-now.com /stars/stanwick.html   (1064 words)

  
 Meredy's Barbara Stanwyck Trivia Mania
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Right click your mouse on the [800 x 600] image and choose "set as wallpaper" or "save as" and choose a directory in which to place your wallpaper.
Barbara Stanwyck Poster and Print Store from Meredy's Place and AllPosters.com
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 Barbara Stanwyck @ Classic Movie Favorites
Personal Note: When I started this site on Barbara Stanwyck I just couldn't believe how many of her films are among my favorites and I didn't realize it.
I have many pictures of her and I have seen most of her films.
Your contribution will be used to pay for the ever growing hosting fees that are required to keep these classic movie sites online.
classicmoviefavorites.com /stanwyck   (178 words)

  
 Barbara Stanwyck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Most of America's audiences see Barbara Stanwyck as the matriarch of the...
The American Film Institute Salute to Barbara Stanwyck (1987) (TV)....
Find where Barbara Stanwyck is credited alongside another name
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 The Lady Eve
Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve was released the same year as Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, 1941, and I've always felt that a kinship exists between the two films if one looks beyond their fundamentally different intents and achievements.
Barbara Stanwyck's devious card shark Jean Harrington easily outwits her bumbling target, ale fortune heir Charles Pike (played by Henry Fonda), reflecting the screwball comedy's everlasting insight that women catch on faster than men.
That Harrington quite unexpectedly falls for Pike in the process of conning him isn't a betrayal of feminist precepts, but an affirmation of the form's enduring sagaciousness with respect to gender and sex: women, the form rightly tells us, are the pursuers of love as much as they are the pursued.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/03/25/lady_eve.html   (1021 words)

  
 Classic Movies
Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent - Hollywood Magazine Cover
Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent - Movie Story Magazine Cover
Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper - Stardom Magazine Cover
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