Barbara Stanwyck
Birthday: 1907-07-16
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: 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 strong screen presence and was a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award four times, and won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. She was the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the Motion Picture Academy, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Screen Actors Guild, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is ranked as the eleventh greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
Movies
Double Indemnity
A seductive housewife draws an insurance salesman into a plot of adultery and crime to collect on he...
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Roustabout
After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his...
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The Lady Eve
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Ch...
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Crime of Passion
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack ...
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world....
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Clash by Night
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend....
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no acc...
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Meet John Doe
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who ...
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious M...
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai....
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Baby Face
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins t...
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, ...
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Christmas in Connecticut
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewi...
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The Furies
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love....
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No Man of Her Own
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash....
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The File on Thelma Jordon
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a t...
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Remember the Night
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter ...
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Jeopardy
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the ti...
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The Night Walker
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supp...
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The Lady Gambles
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the ti...
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Ball of Fire
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. Whe...
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Forty Guns
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Ma...
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Executive Suite
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to ...
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The Violent Men
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but th...
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Walk on the Wild Side
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam...
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Witness to Murder
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom wind...
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There's Always Tomorrow
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekin...
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Golden Boy
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter...
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Ladies They Talk About
A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot....
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Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro...
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The Mad Miss Manton
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police ...
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The Miracle Woman
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a p...
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Stella Dallas
After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter....
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Annie Oakley
Awkward Annie loves her sharpshooting rival in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show....
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All I Desire
In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago....
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Titanic
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her ...
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Hollywood Canteen
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entert...
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This Is Elvis
Though several actors portray Elvis Presley at different stages of his life, this documentary is com...
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The Locked Door
On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
A Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made....
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Lady of Burlesque
After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together ...
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Forbidden
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance...
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Showbiz Goes to War
While a few Hollywood celebrities such as James Stewart and Clark Gable saw combat during World War ...
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Night Nurse
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training sh...
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Breakfast for Two
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted hi...
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The Stolen Jools
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to ra...
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Internes Can't Take Money
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't ...
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B.F.'s Daughter
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired we...
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The Man with a Cloak
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of ...
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The Purchase Price
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a...
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Blowing Wild
Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. ...
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The Gay Sisters
The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married....
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The House That Would Not Die
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country....
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You Belong to Me
A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients....
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The Great Man's Lady
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who...
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The Woman in Red
A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn o...
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Ten Cents a Dance
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client....
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Shopworn
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness....
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Illicit
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, be...
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Escape to Burma
A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen...
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Cattle Queen of Montana
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers....
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East Side, West Side
A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing him...
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Ladies of Leisure
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich su...
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My Reputation
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems...
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The Other Love
Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attract...
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Trooper Hook
When Apache chief Nanchez is captured by the cavalry, his white squaw and infant son are returned to...
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California
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but...
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The Bride Walks Out
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But pa...
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the ...
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Gambling Lady
A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's...
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His Brother's Wife
Epidemiologist Cliff Claybourne falls in love with Rita Wilson in a gambling house. They want to mar...
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The Moonlighter
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged,...
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Variety Girl
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business char...
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Flesh and Fantasy
Anthology film of three tales of the supernatural. The first story is set at the Mardi Gras in New O...
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This Is My Affair
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well ...
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A Message to Garcia
A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba....
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Ever in My Heart
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German....
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The Maverick Queen
Kit Banion, a Virginia-born beauty and product of post-Civil War chaos, has settled in Wyoming and p...
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The Secret Bride
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can ann...
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Banjo on My Knee
A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New O...
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Always Goodbye
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim H...
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To Please a Lady
Mike Brannon is a former war hero turned midget car racer. His ruthless racing tactics have made him...
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A Taste of Evil
On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes that so...
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Mexicali Rose
The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has...
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Performers arrive in Hampshire
Movie stars are interviewed on a boat in 1947 in Hampshire, United Kingdom....
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Red Salute
The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy ...
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The Plough and the Stars
A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebe...
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The Bride Wore Boots
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife....
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A Lost Lady
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man....
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips....
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found...
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The Letters
Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letter...
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The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Overview of director King Vidor's filmography....
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxin...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Actress Sally Field looks at the dramatic life and successful career of the superb actress Barbara S...
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Hollywood Victory Caravan
A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She pe...
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Hollywood Goes to Town
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film c...
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935....
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Breakdowns of 1944
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944....
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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Round About Hollywood
This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen f...
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Warner at War
Warner Bros. uses the movies to prepare the US for war and keep up morale on the home front during W...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well...
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Hollywood Uncensored
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Peter Fonda host an examination of the history of decency standards for mo...
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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
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Breakdowns of 1942
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1942....
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Bad Girls Behind Bars
A camp, affectionate look at women in prison films - the girls you love to hate and hate to love....
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Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
Fernand Gravey and Danielle Darrieux arrive in Hollywood; the Ritz Brothers achieve immortality, lea...
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Dragon by the Tail
Josephine Little, an expatriate American importer-exporter of sometimes unscrupulous dealings, is re...
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