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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck - Steel-True 1907-1940 (Paperback)
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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck - Steel-True 1907-1940 (Paperback)
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Fifteen years in the making, "860 glittering pages" ("The New York
Times"), the first volume of the astonishing life of Barbara
Sanwyck--one of our greatest screen actresses--explores her
extraordinary range of eighty-eight motion pictures, her work, her
world, and her Hollywood through an American century.
Frank Capra called her "the greatest emotional actress the screen
has yet known." Yet Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) was also one of
its most underrated stars. Now, Victoria Wilson gives us the most
complete portrait of this magnificent actress, seen as the
quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New
England stock...her years in New York as dancer and Broadway
star...her fraught marriage to Broadway genius, Frank Fay...the
adoption of a son; her partnership with Zeppo Marx, with whom she
created a horse breeding farm; her fairytale romance and marriage
to Robert Taylor, America's most sought-after male star... Here is
the shaping of her career working with Hollywood's most important
directors, all set against the times--the Depression, the rise of
the unions, the coming of World War II, and a fast-evolving motion
picture industry. At the heart of the book is Stanwyck herself--how
she transformed herself from shunned outsider into one of America's
most revered screen actresses.
Volume One is the result of more than 100 exhaustive interviews
with those who knew Stanwyck, many who never before had agreed to
be interviewed: her family, friends, and co-workers from Lauren
Bacall, Jane Fonda, and Jackie Cooper to Patricia Neal, Milton
Berle, and Kirk Douglas; from Billy Wilder, Bruce Dern, and Anthony
Quinn to Jane Powell, Charlton Heston, Arthur Laurents, and Sydney
Lumet. "An epic Hollywood narrative," "A Life of Barbara Stanwyck
"includes never-before-seen letters, journals, and photographs.
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