Now the ball of fire is again causing a stir, this time thanks to Victoria Wilson’s first installment of a two-part biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940. Lauded by The ...

For years, the idea remained filed away in his subconscious until another real-life story came along ... flirtation between Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck) and Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray ...