Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl
to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and
America's highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among
foster homes as a child, she took a number of low-wage jobs while
she determinedly made the connections that landed her in successful
Broadway productions. Stanwyck then acted in a stream of
high-quality films from the 1930s through the 1950s. Directors such
as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra treasured her
particular magic. A four-time Academy Award nominee, winner of
three Emmys and a Golden Globe, she was honored with a Lifetime
Achievement Award by the Academy.
Dan Callahan considers both Stanwyck's life and her art,
exploring her seminal collaborations with Capra in such great films
as "Ladies of Leisure," "The Miracle Woman," and "The Bitter Tea of
General Yen"; her Pre-Code movies "Night Nurse" and "Baby Face";
and her classic roles in "Stella Dallas," "Remember the Night,"
"The Lady Eve," and "Double Indemnity." After making more than
eighty films in Hollywood, she revived her career by turning to
television, where her role in the 1960s series "The Big Valley"
renewed her immense popularity.
Callahan examines Stanwyck's career in relation to the directors
she worked with and the genres she worked in, leading up to her
late-career triumphs in two films directed by Douglas Sirk, "All I
Desire" and "There's Always Tomorrow," and two outrageous westerns,
"The Furies" and "Forty Guns." The book positions Stanwyck where
she belongs-at the very top of her profession-and offers a close,
sympathetic reading of her performances in all their range and
complexity.
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