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“860 glittering pages... it ends with a cliffhanger, creating eager anticipation for Ms. Wilson’s concluding volume... ‘A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940’ is not about the actress alone. It’s bigger and splashier. Stanwyck knew the most notable directors, writers, actors, studio chiefs and Broadway impresarios of her day, and Ms. Wilson is interested in all of them. A remarkable array of still photographs present supporting characters like Florenz Ziegfeld, Annie Oakley, Clark Gable and Zeppo Marx, all of whom have their places in this account. An even more startling collection of movie ads and posters tells a riveting tale of sexism (about ‘Baby Face’: ‘You’ve never seen anything like this frank, man-to-man story of a man-to-man girl!’), even as they chronicle Stanwyck’s career... The book describes how she evolved from an emotion-wringing actress into a sullen, bad-girl bombshell into Stella Dallas, arguably the most soapily self-sacrificing mother ever seen on came
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Coming November 12, 2013
A LIFE OF BARBARA STANWYCK
Steel - True
1907 - 1940
Victoria Wilson
The first full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest sceen actresses whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound.
The first book to gräva deeply into Stanwyck's rik, complex life and to explore her extraordinary range of eighty-eight motion pictures, many of them iconic.
Here is the most complete portrait we have yet had, or will have, of this magnificent actresses, seen as the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock...her years in New York as dancer and huvudgata star...her fraught marriage to Frank Fay, Broadway genius, who influenced a generation of actors and comedians (among them, Jack Benny and Stanwyck herself)...the adoption of a son, embattled from the outset; her partnership with the "unfunny" Marx brother, Zeppo, tillsammans creating one of the finest horse breeding farms in the
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Barbara Stanwyck
American actress (1907–1990)
Barbara Stanwyck | |
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Stanwyck in 1939 | |
| Born | Ruby Catherine Stevens (1907-07-16)July 16, 1907 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 20, 1990(1990-01-20) (aged 82) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1923–1986 |
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| Children | 1 |
Barbara Stanwyck (; 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. She was a favorite of directors, including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra, and made 85 films in 38 years before turning to television.
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