Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 16, 1907
Place of Birth:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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Barbara Stanwyck
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 GoldenGlobes, theLos 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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood | Various Roles (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Warner at War | (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Shadows of Suspense | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Bad Girls Behind Bars | Nan Taylor (archive footage) |
| 2003 | Complicated Women | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Jessica Drummond (archive footage) |
| 1997 | Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful | Self (archive footage) |
| 1991 | Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire | Self (archive footage) |
| 1989 | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Self |
| 1987 | Hollywood Uncensored | Self (archive footage) |
| 1986 | Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self (from Clash by Night [1952]) (archive footage) |
| 1982 | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | (in "Sorry - Wrong Number") (archive footage) |
| 1982 | Showbiz Goes to War | (archive footage) |
| 1981 | This Is Elvis | |
| 1977 | The House That Would Not Die | Ruth Bennett |
| 1975 | Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | Self (archive footage) |
| 1973 | The Letters | Geraldine Parkington |
| 1973 | The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor | Self (archive footage) |
| 1971 | A Taste of Evil | Miriam Jennings |
| 1964 | Roustabout | Maggie Morgan |
| 1964 | The Night Walker | Irene Trent |
| 1964 | Calhoun | Abby Rayner |
| 1962 | Walk on the Wild Side | Jo Courtney |
| 1961 | Dragon by the Tail | Self - Host/Josephine Little |
| 1957 | Forty Guns | Jessica Drummond |
| 1957 | Trooper Hook | Cora Sutliff |
| 1956 | Crime of Passion | Kathy Ferguson |
| 1956 | There's Always Tomorrow | Norma Miller Vale |
| 1956 | These Wilder Years | Ann Dempster |
| 1956 | The Maverick Queen | Kit Banion |
| 1955 | The Violent Men | Martha Wilkison |
| 1955 | Escape to Burma | Gwen Moore |
| 1954 | Executive Suite | Julia O. Tredway |
| 1954 | Witness to Murder | Cheryl Draper |
| 1954 | Cattle Queen of Montana | Sierra Nevada Jones |
| 1953 | Jeopardy | Helen Stilwin |
| 1953 | All I Desire | Naomi Murdoch |
| 1953 | Titanic | Julia Sturges |
| 1953 | Blowing Wild | Marina Conway |
| 1953 | The Moonlighter | Rela |
| 1952 | Clash by Night | Mae Doyle D'Amato |
| 1951 | The Man with a Cloak | Lorna Bounty |
| 1950 | The Furies | Vance Jeffords |
| 1950 | No Man of Her Own | Helen Ferguson |
| 1950 | To Please a Lady | Regina Forbes |
| 1949 | The File on Thelma Jordon | Thelma Jordon |
| 1949 | The Lady Gambles | Joan Phillips Boothe |
| 1949 | East Side, West Side | Jessie Bourne |
| 1948 | Sorry, Wrong Number | Leona Cotterell Stevenson |
| 1948 | B.F.'s Daughter | Pauline 'Polly' Fulton Brett |
| 1947 | The Two Mrs. Carrolls | Sally Morton Carroll |
| 1947 | Cry Wolf | Sandra Marshall |
| 1947 | The Other Love | Karen Duncan |
| 1947 | California | Lily Bishop |
| 1947 | Variety Girl | Barbara Stanwyck |
| 1947 | Performers arrive in Hampshire | Self |
| 1946 | The Strange Love of Martha Ivers | Martha Ivers |
| 1946 | My Reputation | Jessica Drummond |
| 1946 | The Bride Wore Boots | Sally Warren |
| 1945 | Christmas in Connecticut | Elizabeth Lane |
| 1945 | Hollywood Victory Caravan | Barbara Stanwyck |
| 1944 | Double Indemnity | Phyllis Dietrichson |
| 1944 | Hollywood Canteen | Self |
| 1944 | Breakdowns of 1944 | Self |
| 1943 | Lady of Burlesque | Dixie Daisy |
| 1943 | Flesh and Fantasy | Joan Stanley (segment 3) |
| 1942 | The Gay Sisters | Fiona Gaylord |
| 1942 | Breakdowns of 1942 | Self |
| 1941 | The Lady Eve | Jean Harrington |
| 1941 | Meet John Doe | Ann Mitchell |
| 1941 | Ball of Fire | Sugarpuss O’Shea |
| 1941 | You Belong to Me | Helen Hunt |
| 1941 | The Great Man's Lady | Hannah Sempler Hoyt |
| 1940 | Remember the Night | Lee Leander/Anna Rose Malone |
| 1939 | Golden Boy | Lorna Moon |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Mollie Monahan |
| 1938 | The Mad Miss Manton | Melsa Manton |
| 1938 | Always Goodbye | Margot Weston |
| 1938 | Hollywood Goes to Town | Self |
| 1938 | Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6 | Self |
| 1937 | Stella Dallas | Stella Dallas |
| 1937 | Breakfast for Two | Valentine Ransome |
| 1937 | Internes Can't Take Money | Janet Haley |
| 1937 | This Is My Affair | Lil Duryea |
| 1936 | The Bride Walks Out | Carolyn Martin |
| 1936 | His Brother's Wife | Rita Wilson Claybourne |
| 1936 | A Message to Garcia | Raphaelita Maderos |
| 1936 | Banjo on My Knee | Pearl Elliott Holley |
| 1936 | The Plough and the Stars | Nora Clitheroe |
| 1935 | Annie Oakley | Annie Oakley |
| 1935 | The Woman in Red | Shelby Barret Wyatt |
| 1935 | Red Salute | Drue Van Allen |
| 1935 | Things You Never See on the Screen | Self |
| 1934 | Gambling Lady | Jennifer Lady Lee |
| 1934 | The Secret Bride | Ruth Vincent |
| 1934 | A Lost Lady | Marian Ormsby Forrester |
| 1933 | Baby Face | Lily Powers |
| 1933 | Ladies They Talk About | Nan |
| 1933 | Ever in My Heart | Mary Archer Wilbrandt |
| 1932 | The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Megan Davis |
| 1932 | Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) | Herself |
| 1932 | Forbidden | Lulu Smith |
| 1932 | The Purchase Price | Joan Gordon Gilson |
| 1932 | So Big! | Selina Peake De Jong |
| 1932 | Shopworn | Kitty Lane |
| 1931 | The Miracle Woman | Florence Fallon |
| 1931 | Night Nurse | Lora Hart |
| 1931 | The Stolen Jools | Mrs. Frank Fay |
| 1931 | Ten Cents a Dance | Barbara O'Neill |
| 1931 | Illicit | Anne Vincent |
| 1931 | Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8) | Self |
| 1931 | Round About Hollywood | Self |
| 1930 | Ladies of Leisure | Kay Arnold |
| 1929 | The Locked Door | Ann Carter |
| 1929 | Mexicali Rose | Mexicali Rose |
| The Best Actress in the World: Featuring Barbara Stanwyck | Self |