Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Stanwyck was one of the most versatile and charismatic stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. Best known for her unforgettable ...

Film Scholar and author Dan Callahan gives readers a lifelong look at the overshadowed reputation of the actress Barbara Stanwyck. Beginning with a rocky upbringing in between foster homes, this ...

It’s a sure sight for sore eyes to see the name “Stanwyck” emblazoned on a cinematheque marquee. Then again, not everyone today may be familiar with this name — but the uninitiated have every reason ...

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 ...

The ‘Asteroid City’ director recommends Warner Bros’s 1933 infamous pre-Production Code melodrama about a sexually exploited young woman who decides to turn the table and seduce her way to the top to ...

Zach Laws is a longtime entertainment journalist and movie features writer. He is also an independent filmmaker and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of Los Angeles. Zach grew up watching ...

A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 by Victoria Wilson; Simon and Schuster, 1,044 pages ($40). It’s one of those imponderable questions that can keep the most knowledgeable fans and ...

I read a positive review of Victoria Wilson’s A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940, and, just as I was unprepared by reviews of a memoir by chef Gabrielle Hamilton for a treatise on her ...

“She commands and men obey.” The line, from a ballad sung in Samuel Fuller’s feverish western Forty Guns (1957), is addressed to the formidable, black-clad dragoon leader played by Barbara Stanwyck, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “It sounds like a wonderful scene and a powerful one.” Director and script co-writer Billy Wilder feared that an execution would ...