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Barbara Stanwyck - The Miracle Woman (Paperback)
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Barbara Stanwyck - The Miracle Woman (Paperback)
Series: Hollywood Legends Series
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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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