At the Academy Awards that took place in 1978, William Holden surprised his good friend Barbara Stanwyck by paying an unexpected tribute to her as the one who started his career going. A few years later, Stanwyck was awarded an Honorary Oscar for her work in films. In her acceptance speech, she dedicated the award to.... more

Behold gifted Barbara Stanwyck in choice clips from the rarely-screened 1935 drama "The Woman In Red." She plays Shelby Wyatt (nee Barret), a professional horse rider who falls in love with polo playboy Johnny Wyatt (Gene Raymond). She marries him and into a family of snobs, the Wyatts. Trite, conventional.... more

Capra directs Stanwyck--the results are divine. Miss Barbara Stanwyck remains the finest film actress in American history. Here's some evidence from early in her motion-picture career. Stanwyck stars in the Columbia Pictures movie "The Miracle Woman" (1932). Under Frank Capra's sensitive direction, she.... more

All I Desire - Directed by Douglas Sirk 1953, with Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Carlson, Marcia Henderson, Lori Nelson, Richard Long. All I Desire an early exercise in Douglas Sirk Baroque, is set at the turn of the century. Long divorced from her husband Richard Carlson, itinerant actress Barbara Stanwyck returns to her.... more

A cut above "The Lady Eve." Select scenes from an amusing screwball comedy/murder mystery pitting a rich, snooping socialite ("Melsa Manton"/Barbara Stanwyck) against a persistent investigative newspaper editor ("Peter Ames"/Henry Fonda) and the local police force (headed by dyspeptic.... more

Barbara Stanwyck is a nurse caring for two sick children, and she tries in vain to get some help from their drunken good-for-nothing mother. From the 1931 movie "Night Nurse".

The 1943 movie Lady Of Burlesque, starring Barbara Stanwyck and Michael O'Shea. Directed by William A. Wellman. It is based on the novel The G-String Murders That was written by the famous strip tease artist Gypsy Rose Lee. With ghost-writing assistance from famous mystery writer Craig Rice.

Let me tell you something, Cardinal de Bricassart about old age ...

"I Hum a Waltz" With Robert Taylor, Victor McLaglen Scene from "This Is My Affair" (1937 USA) Directed by William A. Seiter

A pregnant Barbara pleads tearfully with her boyfriend for help, but all she gets is a railroad ticket out of town. From the obscure 1950 melodrama, "No Man of Her Own".