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).

Barbara Stanwyck had a difficult early life. ... "I love the script and I love you, but I am a little afraid after all these years of playing heroines to go into an out-and-out killer." ...

American actress Barbara Stanwyck (1907 - 1990), circa 1960. (Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images) “She was one of the few actresses who chose not to dye her hair,” said Smith.

Barbara Stanwyck is an actress who is easy to appreciate but hard to love. It`s nothing personal. It`s the roles she has played during her 60-year film career, which the American Film Institute hon… ...

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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.

Barbara Stanwyck's personal life was as fraught as some of her more complicated characters, but the 'Big Valley' star's artistic legacy made her a wealthy woman. by Sam Hines.

There's nobody quite like Barbara Stanwyck on screen these days and there was no one like her back in her heyday either. She's a true original, an actress of enormous versatility and skill who ...

Emily W. Leider reviews "A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940," by Victoria Wilson.

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There's Always Tomorrow (May 2-3) The final screen pairing of Stanwyck and MacMurray, this devastating 1956 melodrama of smothered passion remains a hidden treasure in the Douglas Sirk filmography.

She made eighty-eight movies in a career that spanned four decades and worked with some of Hollywood's most esteemed filmmakers: Cecil B. DeMille, Preston… The Life of Barbara Stanwyck | LAist ...