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Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress. A film and television star, she was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence and was a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award four times, and won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. She was the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the Motion Picture Academy, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Golden Globes, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Screen Actors Guild, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is ranked as the eleventh greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
As actor
Citizen Jane Fonda
Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
Warner at War
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Bad Girls Behind Bars
Complicated Women
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
The Casting Couch
Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Hollywood Uncensored
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Showbiz Goes to War
This Is Elvis
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Letters
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
A Taste of Evil
The House That Would Not Die
Roustabout
The Night Walker
Calhoun
Walk on the Wild Side
Dragon by the Tail
Forty Guns
Trooper Hook
Crime of Passion
There's Always Tomorrow