Celebrity biographies are rarely as long and dense as Victoria Wilson's nearly 900-page tome about screen star Barbara Stanwyck (Volume ... She fell in love and married the gifted vaudevillian ...

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 ... this biography spans Stanwyck’s rise from chorus girl ...

In her late 70s, Barbara ... s still much to learn from Stanwyck, who kept acting and even starred on “The Colbys” from 1985 until 1986 — just a few years before she died. “Work was her ...

Barbara Stanwyck ... early in her life. Her mother, Catherine, died after a drunk passenger pushed her off a moving streetcar in 1911. Two weeks after the funeral, Stanwyck’s father, Byron ...

Barbara Stanwyck is an actress who is easy to appreciate but hard to love. It`s nothing personal ... which the American Film Institute honored with its Life Achievement award last month.

The New York Times also reported that the loss devastated Ruby's father, a bricklayer ... the leg - 'get help' Donning the stage name Barbara Stanwyck, she featured in the likes of Double ...

Knopf vice president and senior editor Wilson offers an exhaustive account of the life of Ruby Stevens, better known as Barbara Stanwyck, the beloved actress from Hollywood's golden age.

Today, she returns to screens in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers ... Taylor entered the star's life. Writing in his 2012 book Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman, author Dan Callahan noted ...