Clips from Barbara Stanwyck’s memorable performances reminded Wednesday night’s full house audience at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater of her tremendous versatility. But what about the ...

Born in 1907 as Ruby Stevens, Barbara Stanwyck is the American cinema’s most fascinating indispensable actress. If she ever had an acting lesson, it must not have taken, as her style was pure ...

A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940. By Victoria Wilson. Simon & Schuster, 860 pp. ***1/2. Bill Desowitz is author of James Bond Unmasked. Featured Weekly Ad.

Despite all that, by its heft and by other means, Steel-True courts the definitive. Barbara Stanwyck, born Ruby Stevens of Brooklyn in 1907, star of stage and screen, died of congestive heart ...