King Vidor's "Stella Dallas" (1937), starring Barbara Stanwyck at her best, keeps us ping-ponging between sympathy and contempt for its titular anti-heroine. Stella, the product of a lower-class ...

These are, especially, a scene between Barbara Stanwyck and Anne Shirley in a train when the former has just heard playmates of the latter criticize the mother as a millstone around the child’s ...

Stanwyck passed away at age 82 in 1990, but her films, among them Baby Face (1933), Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), The Lady Eve (1941) and Christmas in Connecticut (1945) have been ...

Barbara Stanwyck Shines Again in New Biography A definitive new biography sheds light on the life of the former Ruby Stevens of Coney Island ...

Callahan concludes that like her Stella Dallas character, “Stanwyck didn’t like reality—which is why she needed to act almost non-stop [she appeared in 82 movies between 1927 and 1964 and ...

Early in this impassioned biography, film scholar Dan Callahan makes a bold claim for his subject: Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) was “perhaps the finest or at least most consistently fine actress ...

‘VALLEY’ GIRL Barbara Stanwyck had just completed her last movie, “The Night Walker,” and was about to embark on a new career as the matriarch of a television Western family in “The Big ...

If a vote were held to name the weepiest weepie ever made, there’s a good chance “Stella Dallas” would win the honors. The 1937 Barbara Stanwyck drama tells the story of Stella, a working ...

And when she was bad, she was terrific.” “Stella Dallas” will open the series on Nov. 25. The 1937 drama-romance stars Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley and Barbara O’Neil. When Stella Martin ...

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 ...