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 ...

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 ...

They switched to boxing — Art Martell was a former Australian ... Lupe Velez, Ruby Keeler and Barbara Stanwyck. Ordinary housewives came too. Belle Martell had Hollywood friends, a show business ...

Barbara Stanwyck died Jan.20, 1990. The Irish kid from Brooklyn asked that her ashes be strewn at Lone Pine — where she rode in several of her westerns. Jump to Comments ...

Though it belongs—or appears to belong—to the gutter-bound caste of celebrity biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940 puts one in a philosophical frame of mind.

Celebrity biographies are rarely as long and dense as Victoria Wilson's nearly 900-page tome about screen star Barbara Stanwyck (Volume 1, no less, ending right before World War II). Such ...