Barbara Stanwyck
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- Incomparable Barbara Stanwyck Saves 1950 Film "No Man of Her Own"Miss Barbara Stanwyck portrays Helen Ferguson who by accident switches identities after a train wreck. She is embraced by a loving and rich family. Her dark past eventually finds her though.
- Veteran Actress Barbara Stanwyck Shines in 1953 Film "All I Desire"Miss Barbara Stanwyck portrays stage actress Naomi Murdock who returns to her small hometown and the family she deserted in 1900. She faces the scandal she ran away from and the men with whom she loved.
- 1956 Western Film "The Maverick Queen" with Beautiful Barbara StanwyckMiss Barbara Stanwyck portrays cattle baron Kit Banion in the vast Wyoming territory as the old west dies out. She runs up against Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid after falling in love with a gentle male gun-slinging stranger.
The Best Actress of the 1940s: Barbara StanwyckAn appreciation of the most versatile actress in Hollywood history.- Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck Clash in 1950 Film "To Please a Lady"Miss Barbara Stanwyck portrays a ruthless news reporter named Regina Forbes. She writes a scathing article on a wild and dangerous race-car driver named Mike Brannnan. The sparks fly on and off the race track in this exciting film of its' time.
- 1955 Western "The Violent Men" Stars Glenn Ford, Edward G. Robinson and Barbara StanwyckMiss Barbara Stanwyck portrays Martha who is married to a crippled but powerful land baron. They want to control the whole valley until a former union soldier decides to fight for his land. A range war begins between violent men and women.
- Barbara Stanwyck is Desperate Wife in 1953 Film "Jeopardy"Miss Barbara Stanwyck portrays a lovely housewife named Helen Stilwin. While she vacations in Mexico with her family. Her husband gets trapped in a rising ocean tide. She will do anything to save him. Anything!
- Samuel Fuller Directs Barbara Stanwyck in Bold 1957 Western "Forty Guns"Miss Barbara Stanwyck portrays Jessica Drummond who rules "Cochise" county in Arizona. The wild west is dying out as a U.S. Marshal comes to town and disrupts Jessica's control over forty hired guns.
- 1954 Film "Executive Suite" with the Great Barbara StanwyckMiss Barbara Stanwyck portrays Julia who owns major stock in her dead father's old company. The current president in that company suddenly dies. Executives scramble for the top position in a business filled with ambition and greed.
- Film Legend Barbara Stanwyck in 1950 Film Noir "The File on Thelma Jordan"Miss Barbara Stanwyck portrays a mysterious woman named Thelma Jordan in this magnificent 1950 black and white "Film Noir." She lures a male lawyer down to Hell after the brutal murder of her old aunt.
Barbara Stanwyck For(/In) "Ten Cents a Dance," a 1931 Movie Directed by Lionel BarrymoreReview of "Ten Cents a Dance," a 1931 movie directed by Lionel Barrymore with Barbara Stanwyck as a taxi-hall dancer (for the title's ten-cent charg- Sexton Classic Movies: Baby FaceSecond in my series on classic films. Baby Face was one of the primary causes of the backlash against permissive behavior in American movies that led to the institutionalized censorship regulations known as the Hays Code.