Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and America's highest paid woman in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes
Barbara Stanwyck's illustrious career began in the 1920s and spanned sixty years. During that period she starred in major films of many genres and worked with some of the most distinguished Hollywood
*Includes pictures.*Includes Stanwyck's quotes about her own life and career.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.“Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged
"Fifteen years in the making, the first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sou
"Fifteen years in the making, the first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sou
Hundreds of leading ladies have appeared in the thousands of Westerns produced since 1903’s The Great Train Robbery, riding in and out, never to be heard of again. A relative few of the women stayed a
Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck—to name a few—maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores o
The groundbreaking novel behind Frank Capra’s melodrama starring Barbara Stanwyck and Nils Asther. Traveling to Shanghai to marry her medical missionary fiance, the beautiful Megan Davis finds hers
The classic guide to who-did-what-where in Los Angeles, on- and off-screen, including:Film & TV locations: the Hollywood Hills house where Barbara Stanwyck seduced Fred MacMurray in Double Indemn
On The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors:"A well-written biography."-New York TimesOn Stanwyck: The Life and Times of Barbara Stanwyck:"Madsen's admirably researched, insightful po
