Barbara Stanwyck rarely played refined, upscale types. One of her favorite directors, William Wellman, told her, "You can't play a lady." Street-wise party girls, brassy mothers, gambling ladies ...

Miss Barbara Stanwyck is told to take a break from filming Scene No. 410 of "The Big Valley" episode she is filming at CBS Television Center. After trying to eat ham and eggs four times in four ...

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).

The Western series, which ran on ABC from 1965-69, starred Barbara Stanwyck as the matriarch of a ranching family in the 1870s San Joaquin Valley. Sarandon would take on the part of Victoria ...

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

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.

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 ...

Barbara Stanwyck was one of Hollywood’s hard-working pros—and these are ten great performances. ... “Steel-True,” the massive new biography of Barbara Stanwyck by Victoria Wilson, ...