Film Scholar and author Dan Callahan gives readers a lifelong look at the overshadowed reputation of the actress Barbara Stanwyck. Beginning with a rocky upbringing in between foster homes, this ...

Victoria Wilson's new biography, A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 is impressive, if just for its length and heft. It is just the first half of a two-part exhaustive look into the life ...

“Steel-True,” the massive new biography of Barbara Stanwyck by Victoria Wilson, is volume one of two, and it only takes us through 1940. (Stanwyck lived until 1990.) But Stanwyck was an actress who ...

Celebrity biographies are rarely as long and dense as Victoria Wilson's nearly 900-page tome about screen star Barbara Stanwyck (Volume 1, no less, ending right before World War II). Such ambitious ...

In the early days, Hollywood was an interesting and complex playground. Under long studio contracts and the watchful eye of Will H. Hays at the Motion Picture Production Code, it could be difficult to ...

In Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman, Dan Callahan argues convincingly that with the help of some of the better directors and writers of her generation, actress Barbara Stanwyck drew from her ...

(Just this past February, the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto did a retrospective called "Ball of Fire: The Films of Barbara Stanwyck.") When I asked Belcourt programmer Toby Leonard why he decided to ...

She was one of the hardest working, most versatile actresses of the Golden Era of Hollywood, lauded by directors, costars and crew members for her professionalism and pleasant demeanor. During a time ...