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 ...

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 ...

Do you ever feel like, despite the ample supply of Hallmark and streaming holiday movies, that you’ve run out of good options ...

“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, ...

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 ...

One of my favorite black and white Christmastime films is the 1945 Warner Bros. classic “Christmas in Connecticut” starring the late Barbara Stanwyck as a popular syndicated magazine columnist who ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — What is it? The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Volume 1, 15 half-hour episodes on three discs from E1 Entertainment and the Archive of American Television. How much? $39.98. When? Now. What’s it ...

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 ...

The Big Valley, starring Barbara Stanwyck, first premiered on Sept. 13, 1965. By 1965, the popularity of Westerns had largely shifted from the big screen to our living rooms, thanks to rating ...