University Press of Mississippi | ISBN:1617031836 | File Type: PDF, 252 pages | File size: 75.Mb | Feb. 3rd, 2012
General Entertainment Biography Autobiography: The Miracle Woman Barbara Stanwyck 1907 1990 rose from the ranks of chorus girl to become one of Hollywood s most talented leading women and America s highest paid woman in the mid 1940s Shuttled among foster homes as a child she took a number of low wage jobs while she determinedly made the connections that landed her in successf Broadway productions Stanwyck then acted in a stream of high quality films from the 1930s through the 1950s Directors such as Cecil B DeMille Fritz Lang and Frank Capra treasured her particar magic A four time Academy Award nominee winner of three Emmys and a Golden Globe she was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy Dan Callahan considers both Stanwyck s life and her art exploring her seminal collaborations with Capra in such great films as Ladies of Leisure The Miracle Woman and The Bitter Tea of General Yen her re Code movies Night Nurse and Baby Face and her ic roles in Stella Dallas Remember the Night The Lady Eve and Double Indemnity After making more than eighty films in Hollywood she revived her career by turning to television where her role in the 1960s series The Big Valley renewed her immense poparity Callahan examines Stanwyck s career in relation to the directors she worked with and the genres she worked in leading up to her late career triumphs in two films directed by Douglas Sirk All I Desire and There s Always Tomorrow and two outrageous westerns The Furies and Forty Guns The book positions Stanwyck where she belongs at the very top of her profession and offers a close sympathetic reading of her performances in all their range and complexity
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