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Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) rose from the rates of chorus young lady to become one of Hollywood's most talented leading women-and America's highest paid female in the mid-1940s. Shuttled among foster homes as a kid, she took a number of low-wage jobs while she determinedly made the contacts that landed her in successful Broadway productions. Stanwyck then acted in a blast of high-quality movies from the 1930s through the 1950s. Directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra treasured her particular magic. A four-time Academy Prize nominee, victor of three Emmys and a Golden Earth, she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Prize by the Academy. Dan Callahan considers both Stanwyck's life and her fine art, exploring her seminal collaborations with Capra in such great movies as Ladies of Leisure, The Magic Female, and The Bitter Tea of Basic Yen; her Pre-Code movies Evening Nurse and Baby Face; and her basic jobs in Stella Dallas, Remember the Evening, The Girl Eve, and Two times Indemnity. After making more than eighty movies in Hollywood, she revived her career by embracing television set, where her role in the 1960s series The Big Valley restored her immense acceptance. Callahan examines Stanwyck's career with regards to the directors she caused and the styles she did the trick in, leading up to her late-career triumphs in two movies directed by Douglas Sirk, All I Desire and There's Always Tomorrow, and two outrageous westerns, The Furies and 40 Guns. The publication positions Stanwyck where she belongs-at the very top of her profession-and offers a detailed, sympathetic reading of her performances in every their range and difficulty. The publication is released by University or college Press of Mississippi.
