Barbara Stanwyck was one of the most versatile and charismatic stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. Best known for her unforgettable performance as a femme fatale in the classic 1944 film noir Double ...

Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress. A film and television star, she was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a ...

Victoria Wilson's new biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 is impressive, if just for its length and heft. It is just the first half of a two-part exhaustive look into the life ...

A new biography delves deep into the life and career of screen legend Barbara Stanwyck. New York City has put out its fair share of Hollywood stars over the years, from Lauren Bacall, who was born in ...

In the 1934 potboiler “Gambling Lady,” Barbara Stanwyck gets to pull off an essential Stanwyckian moment: Elegantly dressed and coiffed, she saunters into a card club and sits down at a poker table.

A great daughter of Brooklyn turns 100. Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Stevens and brought up in foster homes) went from telephone company employee to Broadway chorine to Hollywood star—and broke my ...

Ball of Fire: Barbara Stanwyck Centennial. BAMcinématek celebrates the Brooklyn-born actor of Hollywood's Golden Age. Today: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), directed by Lewis Milestone, with ...

When becoming a proper movie star, it's important to know how you want to craft your persona. Do you channel something that's inherent to who you are? Do you make your public self completely different ...