a chunk of land left to fierce widow Victoria Barkley (Barbara Stanwyck) by her late husband Thomas. With three sons — Jarrod (Richard Long), Nick (Peter Breck) and Heath (Thomas’ illegitimate ...

Barbara StanwyckBarbara Stanwyck's commanding presence as Victoria Barkley, the resilient matriarch of the Barkley clan, cemented her status as a Hollywood icon, leaving an enduring legacy of ...

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 ...

More about the lady Barbara will be revealed as Knopf editor Victoria Wilson completes a 10-year project — the detailed biography of Barbara Stanwyck. She obtained letters from a 15 year ...

You thought it had left you, but it hadn’t. You say to yourself, I hope she lives.” A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940 by Victoria Wilson. Simon & Schuster.

“Steel-True,” the massive new biography of Barbara Stanwyck by Victoria Wilson, is volume one of two, and it only takes us through 1940. (Stanwyck lived until 1990.) But Stanwyck was an ...

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 ...