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Barbara Stanwyck began her career as a chorus girl. For an actress she was when her part was rewritten as a dancer in the drama The Noose for a dramatic role. Shortly thereafter, she took the stage name Barbara Stanwyck, after she had read on a theater billboard announcing "Barbara Fritchie in Jane Stanwyck. After her first film appearance in 1927 in Broadway Nights 1928, she married comedian Frank Fay. The couple adopted a boy who stayed behind after the divorce in 1933 Stanwyck.
As a film actress Barbara Stanwyck in 1930 known for her role in Ladies of Leisure, directed by Frank Capra - after two unsuccessful appearances in the previous year. The film tells a tragic love story, and inspired by their critics Stanwyck mix of vulnerability and toughness. Immediately afterwards, she had a huge financial success with the film Illicit whom she turned for Warner Brothers. The studio, she announced on the posters as Miss Barbara Stanwyck, an honor that state otherwise only Mr. George Arliss, and Mr. John Barrymore. She signed over the course of that year, non-exclusive contract with Warner Brothers and Columbia, where she worked with Frank Capra, the film The Miracle Woman, turned Forbidden and The Bitter Tea of General Yen. Stanwyck was during the Great Depression, in addition to Sylvia Sidney is one of the heroines of the working class. Improvement in such films as The Purchase Price, Night Nurse and especially Baby Face, she played women who were able, in spite of adverse circumstances, their social situation. She had this image a far harsher and more robust than, for example, Constance Bennett and Joan Crawford (with whom she had befriended his life in private) or Ann Harding and other performers who came to fame in those days remains.
Towards the middle of this decade went to the career of the actress in mediocrity. Only after Ruth Chatterton in 1937 from the production of Stella Dallas withdrew and Barbara Stanwyck took the role, she managed a comeback. She was nominated for an Oscar, but lost to Luise Rainer. Their romance with Robert Taylor, whom she later married, but did not diminish their newfound popularity. With Always Goodbye, the remake of the classic Gallant Lady with Ann Harding, Stanwyck in 1938 was again a star.
The peak of their popularity reached Stanwyck mid-1940s. At the beginning of the decade it was directed by Frank Capra in the movie Meet John Doe with Gary Cooper in front of the camera. She took over the role after Jean Arthur was not available. A well-known roles was that of Stanwyck in the comedy The Lady Eve, in which they acted and directed by Preston Sturges in addition to Henry Fonda. In 1944, Barbara Stanwyck was, according to the National Treasury is the highest paid woman in the U.S., ahead of Deanna Durbin and Bette Davis, with an annual income exceeding $ 400,000.
That same year she shot and directed by Billy Wilder the film noir classic Double Indemnity. Despite negative reviews, the film was an overwhelming financial success. Subsequently Barbara Stanwyck played repeatedly unscrupulous women, as in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, with Kirk Douglas and Van Heflin or File on Thelma Jordon. By her own account, however, was the movie My reputation, which was filmed in 1944, but in 1946 came into the loan, her personal favorite. In it the problems were highlighted by a war widow with two children. An uncharacteristically passive role for her in 1948 she had 105 minutes you still live as a partner of Burt Lancaster as a murder victim. For this role, she was again nominated for an Oscar.
In 1950, she shot one of her best films, Derailed, who was directed by Mitchell Leisen in a typical Joan Crawford role: A woman assumes a false identity after a train accident, witnessed many happy hours in a new family and in the end blackmailed by her former lover. In the 1950s, Barbara Stanwyck's films include the thriller seconds of terror and worked with in the disaster film sinking of the Titanic. The rest of the decade she spent primarily as a heroine of countless Western saddle, so others in Forty Guns. Among her better roles this time included two appearances in films directed by Douglas Sirk: All I Desire and There's Always Tomorrow, and in executive suites, a film with an all-star cast of succession in a successful company. Among the few appearances in the cinema from the period after 1957 is one of the musical king of the hot rhythms with Elvis Presley. In the drama on burning pavement, they subtly embodied in the lesbian owner of a brothel.
After her role in the horror film "He only came at night, Barbara Stanwyck began in 1967 a second career in television with the series The Big Valley. From the mid-1970s, she retired for health reasons, but increasingly, falling into her private life. Her last major role she played in 1983 in the literary adaptation for television filmed The Thorn Birds, with Richard Chamberlain. To her surprise, she won for her representation, a Golden Globe. In her acceptance speech, she openly admitted that the price actually Ann-Margret for her performance in what is only for the children? "(Who will love my child? Awarded) belong. In 1985 she was seen once again on television in the television series The Empire - The Colbys, a spin-off of the Dynasty, too. She played in the first season, the role of Constance Colby Patterson, but then stepped back from their contract and admitted later that this was the worst production in which she had ever participated.
Born Ruby Katherine Stevens
July 16, 1907
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died January 20, 1990 (aged 82)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1927 – 1986
Spouse(s) Frank Fay (1928 – 1935) (divorced) 1 child
Robert Taylor (1939 – 1951) (divorced)
Filmography
1930: Ladies of Leisure
1931: Illicit
1931: Night Nurse
1931: jewel robbery in Hollywood (The Stolen Jools)
1931: Ten Cents a Dance
1931: The Miracle Woman
1932: Forbidden
1932: Shopworn
1932: So Big
1932: The Purchase Price
1933: Baby Face
1933: Ladies They Talk About
1933: The Bitter Tea (The Bitter Tea of General Yen)
1933: Your last night (Ever in My Heart)
1934: The player (Gambling Heart)
1935: Annie Oakley
1936: The Message to Garcia (A Message to Garcia)
1936: Between love and hate (His Brother's Wife)
1937: Stella Dallas
1937: Resident Dr. Kilder (Internal Can not Take Money)
1937: Under four eyes (This Is My Affair)
1938: Always Goodbye
1939: Golden Boy
1939: Union Pacific / The woman belongs to me (Union Pacific)
1940: The night to remember (Remember the Night)
1941: Meet John Doe (Meet John Doe) is
1941: The Lady Eve (The Lady Eve)
1942: The taming of the remarkable moll Sugar (Ball of Fire)
1943: Lady of Burlesque
1944: Double Indemnity (Double Indemnity)
1946: Christmas-to-measure (Christmas in Connecticut)
1946: My Reputation
1946: California
1946: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (The Strange Love of Martha Ivers)
1947: The curse of madness (Cry Wolf)
1947: The Two Mrs. Carrolls (The Two Mrs. Carrolls)
1948: BF's Daughter
1948: You're still alive 105 minutes (Sorry, Wrong Number)
1950: Derailed (No Man of Her Own)
1950: criminal Thelma Jordan (The File on Thelma Jordon)
1950: The farm of the possessed (The Furies)
1950: death in the neck (To Please a Lady)
1952: Before the new day (Clash by Night)
1953: All my longing (All I Desire)
1953 seconds of anxiety (Jeopardy)
1953: Sinking of the Titanic (Titanic)
1954: Witness to Murder
1954: Queen of the Mountains (Cattle Queen of Montana)
1954: The Schemers (Executive Suite)
1955: Rough fellows (The Violent Men)
1955: Escape to Burma (Escape to Burma)
1956: The devil of Colorado (The Maverick Queen)
1956: There's always a tomorrow (There's Always Tomorrow)
1957: It was murder, Mr. Doyle (Crime of Passion)
1957: Curse of violence (Trooper Hook)
1957: Forty Guns (Forty Guns)
1962: At a glowing patch (Walk on the Wild Side)
1964: King of the hot rhythms (Roustabout)
1964: He joined only at night (The Night Walker)
Oscar Nominations
1937 - Stella Dallas
1941 - Ball of Fire
1944 - Double Idemnity
1948 - Sorry, Wrong Number
