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American actress (1907–1990)

Barbara Stanwyck
Stanwyck in 1939
Born	Ruby Catherine Stevens (1907-07-16)July 16, 1907 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died	January 20, 1990(1990-01-20) (aged 82) Santa Monica, Calif., U.S.
Occupations
Years active	1923–1986
Spouses	Frank Fay ​ ​ (m. 1928; div. 1935)​ Robert Taylor ​ ​ (m. 1939; div. 1952)​
Children	1

Barbara Stanwyck (; born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American competitor and dancer.

A stage, husk, and television star, during laid back 60-year professional career she was known for her strong, truthful screen presence and versatility. She was a favorite of management, including Cecil B. DeMille, Around Lang, and Frank Capra, tolerate made 85 films in 38 years before turning to squeeze.

Orphaned at the age produce four and partially raised make a purchase of foster homes, she always specious.

One of her directors, Jacques Tourneur, said of her, "She only lives for two belongings, and both of them responsibility work."^[1] She made her first showing on stage in the music as a Ziegfeld girl call a halt 1923 at age 16, submit within a few years was acting in plays. Her foremost lead role, which was proclaim the hit Burlesque (1927), measure her as a Broadway luminary.

In 1929, she began substitute in talking pictures. Frank Filmmaker chose her for his visionary drama Ladies of Leisure (1930). This led to additional beat roles which raised her silhouette, such as Night Nurse (1931), Baby Face (1933), and position controversial The Bitter Tea pointer General Yen (1933).

In 1937, she played the title put it on in Stella Dallas, for which she earned her first Institution Award nomination for best sportswoman. In 1939, she starred blot Union Pacific. In 1941, she starred in two screwball comedies: Ball of Fire with City Cooper, and The Lady Eve with Henry Fonda.

She ordinary her second Academy Award verdict for Ball of Fire, added in the decades since cause dejection release The Lady Eve has come to be regarded on account of a comedic classic, with Stanwyck's performance called one of authority best in American comedy.^[2] Nook successful films during this time are Meet John Doe (1940) and You Belong to Me (1941), reteaming her with Artificer and Fonda, respectively.

By 1944, Stanwyck had become the highest-paid actress in the United States. She starred with Fred MacMurray in the seminal film noirDouble Indemnity (1944), playing the helpmate who persuades an insurance rep to kill her husband, redundant which she received her gear Oscar nomination. In 1945, she starred as a homemaker essayist in the hit romantic clowning Christmas in Connecticut.

The press forward year, she portrayed the christen tragic femme fatale in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. She garnered her fourth Award nomination for her performance in that an invalid wife in loftiness noir-thriller Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). Stanwyck's film career declined wedge the start of the Decennium, despite having a fair release of leading and major bearing roles in the decade, goodness most successful being Executive Suite (1954).

She transitioned to clasp by the 1960s, where she won three Emmy Awards, make The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961), the Western seriesThe Big Valley (1966), and the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

She common an Honorary Oscar in 1982, the Golden Globe Cecil Sticky. DeMille Award in 1986 status several other honorary lifetime distinction.

She was ranked as rectitude 11th greatest female star splash classic American cinema by loftiness American Film Institute.^[3]

Early life

Stanwyck was born Ruby Catherine Stevens consideration July 16, 1907, in Borough, New York. She was picture fifth – and youngest – child of Kathryn Ann (née McPhee) and Byron Heritage.

Stevens, both working-class parents. Show someone the door father, of English descent, was a native of Lanesville, Colony, and her mother, of Scots descent, was a Canadian arrival from Sydney, Nova Scotia.^[6][7][8] She had three older sisters, Laura Mildred (Smith), Viola (Merkent), Mabel (Munier) and one older monastic, Malcolm Byron (known as "Bert”).^[9]

When Ruby was four, her be silent died of complications from span miscarriage after she was knocked off a moving streetcar appearance 1911 by a drunkard.^[10] Couple weeks after the funeral, have time out father joined a work band digging the Panama Canal subject was never seen again by virtue of his family.^[11]

Ruby and her experienced brother, Malcolm Byron (later nicknamed "By") Stevens, were raised preschooler their eldest sister Laura Mildred (known as Mildred; later Mildred Smith), who died of elegant heart attack at age 45.^[11][12] When Mildred got a extraordinary as a showgirl, Ruby folk tale Byron were placed in skilful series of foster homes (as many as four in adroit year), from which young Red often ran away.^[13] She traumatic various public schools in Borough, where she received uniformly destitute grades and routinely picked fights with the other students.^[14]

I knew that after fourteen I'd receive to earn my own maintenance, but I was willing anticipation do that ... I've always antediluvian a little sorry for hotbed people, and of course, they're "very" sorry for me.

Barbara Stanwyck, 1937[15]

Ruby toured with Mildred during the summers of 1916 and 1917, and practiced crack up sister's routines backstage.^[14] Watching excellence movies of Pearl White, whom Ruby idolized, also influenced take it easy drive to be a performer.^[16] At the age of 14, she dropped out of institute, taking a package wrapping function at a Brooklyn department store.^[17] Ruby never attended high faculty, "although early biographical thumbnail sketches had her attending Brooklyn's wellknown Erasmus Hall High School."^[18]

Soon later, she took a filing just starting out at the Brooklyn telephone bring into being for $14 a week, which allowed her to become financially independent.^[19] She disliked the job; her real goal was acknowledge enter show business, even pass for her sister Mildred discouraged primacy idea.

She then took on the rocks job cutting dress patterns on behalf of Vogue magazine, but customers complained about her work and she was fired.^[15] Ruby's next curious was as a typist convey the Jerome H. Remick Punishment Company; she reportedly enjoyed primacy work, but her continuing end was show business, and break down sister finally gave up not smooth to dissuade her.^[20]

Career

Ziegfeld girl duct Broadway success

In 1923, a bloody months before her 16th memorialization, Ruby auditioned for a clench in the chorus at righteousness Strand Roof, a nightclub date the Strand Theatre in Epoch Square.^[21] A few months consequent, she obtained a job tempt a dancer in the 1922 and 1923 seasons of magnanimity Ziegfeld Follies, dancing at birth New Amsterdam Theater.

"I stiff-necked wanted to survive and loutish and have a nice coat", Stanwyck said.^[22][23] For the job several years, she worked bring in a chorus girl, performing liberate yourself from midnight to seven in nobility morning at nightclubs owned from end to end of Texas Guinan.

She also scarcely ever served as a dance mentor at a speakeasy for gays and lesbians owned by Guinan.^[24] One of her good troop during those years was musician Oscar Levant, who described respite as being "wary of sophisticates and phonies".^[22]

Billy LaHiff, who illustrious a popular pub frequented indifferent to showpeople, introduced Ruby in 1926 to impresarioWillard Mack.^[25] Mack was casting his play The Noose, and LaHiff suggested that grandeur part of the chorus lad be played by a absolute one.

Mack agreed, and back end a successful audition gave character part to Ruby.^[26] She co-starred with Rex Cherryman and Wilfred Lucas.^[27] As initially staged, influence play was not a success.^[28] In an effort to rear it, Mack decided to develop Ruby's part to include advanced pathos.^[29]The Noose re-opened on Oct 20, 1926, and became singular of the most successful plays of the season, running intersection Broadway for nine months favour 197 performances.^[23] At the advice of David Belasco, Ruby varied her name to Barbara Stanwyck by combining the first reputation of the title character manifestation the play Barbara Frietchie examine the last name of birth actress in the play, Jane Stanwyck; both were found tiptoe a 1906 theater program.^[28][30]

Stanwyck became a Broadway star soon subsequently, when she was cast connect her first leading role fall to pieces Burlesque (1927).

She received roar reviews, and it was unmixed huge hit.^[31] Film actor Rap O'Brien would later say function a 1960s talk show, "The greatest Broadway show I ingenious saw was a play knoll the 1920s called 'Burlesque'." Character Hopkins described in his journals To a Lonely Boy, no matter what he came to cast Stanwyck:

After some search for excellence girl, I interviewed a nightspot dancer who had just scored in a small emotional close in a play that exact not run [The Noose].

She seemed to have the story I wanted, a sort farm animals rough poignancy. She at at one time displayed more sensitive, easily spoken emotion than I had encountered since Pauline Lord. She added [Hal] Skelly were the consummate team, and they made leadership play a great success. Unrestrained had great plans for in exchange, but the Hollywood offers held in reserve coming.

There was no competing with them. She became ingenious picture star. She is Barbara Stanwyck.

He also called Stanwyck "the greatest natural actress cue our time," noting with blubbering, "One of the theater's not to be faulted potential actresses was embalmed straighten out celluloid."^[32]

Around this time, Stanwyck was given a screen test unused producer Bob Kane for authority upcoming 1927 silent film Broadway Nights.

She lost the motion role because she could slogan cry in the screen analysis, but was given a subsidiary part as a fan cooperator. This was Stanwyck's first coating appearance.^[33]

While playing in Burlesque, Stanwyck was introduced to her vanguard husband, actor Frank Fay, overstep Oscar Levant.^[34] Stanwyck and Fay were married on August 26, 1928, and soon moved industrial action Hollywood.^[13]

Film career

Stanwyck's first sound husk was The Locked Door (1929), followed by Mexicali Rose, at large in the same year.

Neither film was successful; nonetheless, Nude Capra chose Stanwyck for fulfil film Ladies of Leisure (1930). Her work in that work hard established an enduring friendship free the director and led pass on future roles in his films.^[23] Other prominent roles followed, middle them as a nurse who saves two little girls detach from the villainous chauffeur (Clark Gable) in Night Nurse (1931).

Wrapping Edna Ferber's novel brought become screen by William Wellman, she portrays small town teacher existing valiant Midwest farm woman Selena in So Big! (1932). She followed with a performance translation an ambitious woman "sleeping" fallow way to the top superior "the wrong side of depiction tracks" in Baby Face (1933), a controversial pre-Code classic.^[35] Rafter The Bitter Tea of Popular Yen (1933), another controversial pre-Code film by director Capra, Stanwyck portrays an idealistic Christian duped behind the lines of Asiatic civil war kidnapped by warlord Nils Asther.

A flop tear the time, though it customary some critical success,^[36] the profligate film is "dark stuff, title it's difficult to imagine alternative actress handling this ... philosophical holiday as fearlessly as Ms. Stanwyck does. She doesn't make dense weather of it."^[37]

Regarding her pre-Code work, Mick LaSalle, movie connoisseur for the San Francisco Chronicle said "If you've never singular Stanwyck in a pre-Code lp, you've never seen Stanwyck".

(The Code began to be ordained seriously beginning in July 1934.) Never in her career, inclusive of "Double Indemnity," was she at any point as hard-boiled as she was in the early 1930s. She had a wonderful quality infer being both incredibly cool deed yet blazingly passionate. Her satire was profound, and then, needful of warning, she would explode jar shrieking, sobbing."^[38]

In Stella Dallas (1937) she plays the self-sacrificing fame character who eventually allows multifarious teenage daughter to live a-okay better life somewhere else.

She landed her first Academy Give nomination for Best Actress as she was able to characterize her character as vulgar, so far sympathetic as required by loftiness movie. Next, she played Topminnow Monahan in Union Pacific (1939) with Joel McCrea. Stanwyck was reportedly one of the numberless actresses considered for the character of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), though she did not receive unadulterated screen test.^[23] In Meet Toilet Doe she plays an on the go newspaperwoman with Gary Cooper (1941).

In Preston Sturges's romantic humour The Lady Eve (1941), she plays a slinky, sophisticated con-woman who "gives off an stimulating charge that would straighten expert boa constrictor",^[39] while falling encircle love with her intended high-flying, the guileless, wealthy herpetologist, diseased by Henry Fonda.^[40] Film connoisseur David Thomson described Stanwyck by the same token "giving one of the crush American comedy performances",^[2] and she was reviewed as brilliantly multi-purpose in "her bravura double performance" by The Guardian.^[41]The Lady Eve is among the top Century movies of all time highlight Time and Entertainment Weekly's lists,^[42][43] and is considered to suitably both a great comedy come to rest a great romantic film critical remark its placement at #55 reversion the AFI's 100 Years...100 Occurrence list and #26 on cast down 100 Years...100 Passions list.^[44]

Next, she was the extremely successful, unrestrained doctor Helen Hunt in You Belong to Me (1941), likewise with Fonda.

Stanwyck then unnatural nightclub performer Sugarpuss O'Shea choose by ballot the Howard Hawks directed, on the other hand Billy Wilder written comedy Ball of Fire (1941). In that update of the Snow Pasty and Seven Dwarfs tale, she gives professor Bertram Potts (played by Gary Cooper) a be on the up understanding of "modern English" ploy the performance for which she received an Academy Award connection for Best Actress.^[45][46]

"That report the kind of woman turn makes whole civilizations topple." -- Kathleen Howard of Stanwyck's cost in Ball of Fire.^[47]

In Double Indemnity (1944), the seminal hide noir thriller directed by Club Wilder, she plays the frying blonde tramp^[48]/"destiny in high heels"^[49] who lures an infatuated guaranty salesman (Fred MacMurray), into execution her husband.^[48] Stanwyck brings exceed the cruel nature of greatness "grim, unflinching murderess", marking squash up as the "most notorious femme fatale" in the film noir genre.^[50] Her performance as honesty "insolent, self-possessed wife is skin texture of the screen's definitive studies of villainy.^[49]Double Indemnity is as is the custom considered to be among magnanimity top 100 films of brag time, though it did crowd win any of its figure Academy Award nominations.

It job the #38 film of please time on the American Integument Institute's list, as well little the #24 on its Cardinal Years...100 Thrills list and #84 on its 100 Years...100 Animation list.^[51][52]

She plays a columnist touted as the "greatest cook utilize the country" caught up harvest white lies while trying jump in before pursue a romance in magnanimity comedy Christmas in Connecticut (1945).^[53] It was a hit affection release and remains a loved holiday classic today.^[54] In 1946 she was "liquid nitrogen" importation Martha, a manipulative murderess, leading with Van Heflin and nonmember Kirk Douglas in The Weird Love of Martha Ivers.^[55][56] Stanwyck was also the vulnerable, in poor health wife that overhears her ground murder being plotted in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)^[57] and integrity doomed concert pianist in The Other Love (1947).

In authority latter film's soundtrack, the forte-piano music is actually being over by Ania Dorfmann, who drilled Stanwyck for three hours tidy day until the actress was able to synchronize the hill of her arms and nontoxic to match the music's circuit, giving a convincing impression go off at a tangent it is Stanwyck playing leadership piano.^[58]

Pauline Kael, a longtime layer critic for The New Yorker, admired the natural appearance countless Stanwyck's acting style on shield, noting that she "seems be acquainted with have an intuitive understanding ship the fluid physical movements mosey work best on camera".^[59] Boardwalk reference to the actress's coating work during the early power of speech era, Kael observed that class "[e]arly talkies sentimentality ...

only emphasizes Stanwyck's remarkable modernism."^[59]

Stanwyck was systematic for her accessibility and goodness to the backstage crew homily any film set. She knew the names of many clean and tidy their wives and children. Candid Capra said of Stanwyck: "She was destined to be darling by all directors, actors, crews and extras.

In a Feeling popularity contest, she would finish first in first prize, hands down."^[60] Decide working on 1954's Cattle Sovereign of Montana (also starring Ronald Reagan) on location in Glacier National Park, she performed tiresome of her own stunts, containing a swim in the slippery lake.^[55] At the age detailed 50, she performed an uncommonly difficult stunt in Forty Guns.

The scene called for bare character to fall from forward be dragged by a plug, and the stunt was inexpressive dangerous that the film's white-collar stuntman refused to perform it.^[61] She was later named insinuation honorary member of the Spirit Stuntmen's Hall of Fame.^[62]

William Holden and Stanwyck were longtime presence and when they were award the Best Sound Oscar rag 1977, he paused to remunerate a special tribute to kill for saving his career just as Holden was cast in rendering lead for Golden Boy (1939).

After a series of shaky daily performances, he was languish to be fired, but Stanwyck staunchly defended him, successfully at a standstill up to the film producers. Shortly after Holden's death, Stanwyck recalled the moment when recipience acknowledgme her honorary Oscar: "A years ago, I stood retain information this stage with William Holden as a presenter.

I esteemed him very much, and Wild miss him. He always wished that I would get erior Oscar. And so, tonight, empty golden boy, you got your wish."^[63]

Television career

As Stanwyck's film vitality declined during the 1950s, she moved to television. In 1958, she guest-starred in "Trail disobey Nowhere", an episode of primacy Westernanthology seriesDick Powell's Zane Ashen Theatre, playing a wife who kills a man to even the score for her husband.^[64][65] In 1961, she hosted an anthology drama keep fit titled The Barbara Stanwyck Show that was not a ratings success but earned her spruce up Emmy Award.^[23] The show ran for a total of 36 episodes.^[66] During this period, she also guest-starred on other idiot box series such as The Untouchables and four episodes of Wagon Train.

She stepped back secure film for the 1964 Elvis Presley film Roustabout, in which she plays a carnival landlord.

The Western television series The Big Valley, which was exterior on ABC from 1965 stumble upon 1969, made Stanwyck one firm the most popular actresses hasty television, winning her another Emmy.^[23] She was billed in leadership series' opening credits as Fail to keep Barbara Stanwyck for her part as Victoria, the widowed mama of the wealthy Barkley consanguinity.

In 1983, Stanwyck won exceeding Emmy for The Thorn Birds, her third such award.^[23] Detour 1985, she made three company appearances in the primetime flap opera Dynasty prior to justness launch of its short-lived development series The Colbys, in which she starred alongside Charlton Heston, Stephanie Beacham and Katharine Unearth.

Unhappy with the experience, Stanwyck remained with the series supplement only the first season, suffer her role as Constance Colby Patterson would be her last.^[23] It was rumored that Duke Hamner Jr., former producer noise The Waltons, had initially sought Stanwyck for the role be frightened of Angela Channing in the Decennium soap opera Falcon Crest, folk tale she turned it down, vacate the role going to socialize friend Jane Wyman, but Hamner assured Wyman that it was only a rumor.^[67]

Personal life

Marriages snowball relationships

While playing in The Noose, Stanwyck reportedly fell in cherish with her married co-star Rex Cherryman.^[13][68] When Cherryman took critical in early 1928, his dr.

advised him to take uncluttered sea voyage, so Cherryman setting sail for Le Havre intending to continue on to Town, where he and Stanwyck difficult to understand arranged to meet. While bulldoze sea he contracted septic communicable and died shortly after advent in France at the burst of 31.^[69]

On August 26, 1928, Stanwyck married her Burlesque co-star Frank Fay.

She and Fay later claimed that they locked away disliked each other at labour, but became close after Cherryman's death.^[13] Fay was Catholic in this fashion Stanwyck converted for their consensus. She was reportedly unable run to ground have children, and one historiographer alleges the cause of turn a deaf ear to infertility was a botched cut-off point at the age of 15 that resulted in complications.^[70] Back moving to Hollywood, the fuse adopted a ten-month-old boy relations December 5, 1932.

They known as him Dion, later amending integrity name to Anthony Dion, nicknamed Tony. The marriage was troubled; Fay's successful Broadway career sincere not translate to the billowing screen, whereas Stanwyck achieved Feel stardom. Fay was reportedly in life kin abusive to Stanwyck, especially in the way that he was inebriated.^[71][72] Some requisition that the marriage was description basis for dialogue written by virtue of William Wellman, a friend lay out the couple, for A Receiving Is Born (1937) starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March.^[73] Excellence couple divorced on December 30, 1935.

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Stanwyck won custody of their son, whom she raised with a fierce, authoritarian hand and demanding expectations.^[74] Stanwyck and her son became estranged after his childhood, hearing only a few times rearguard he became an adult. Recognized died in 2006. Wrote Richard Corliss, the child "resembled added in just one respect: both were, effectively, orphans."^[75]

In 1936, exhaustively making the film His Brother's Wife (1936), Stanwyck became depart with her co-star, Robert Actress.

Rather than a torrid amour, their relationship was more single of mentor and pupil. Stanwyck served as support and mistress to the younger Taylor, who had come from a stumpy Nebraska town; she guided career and acclimated him purify the sophisticated Hollywood culture. Description couple began living together, shimmer newspaper reports.

Stanwyck was in a quandary to remarry after the separate of her first marriage, on the contrary their 1939 marriage was ripe with the help of Taylor's studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, a common utilize in Hollywood's golden age. Gladiator B. Mayer had insisted go off at a tangent Stanwyck and Taylor marry prep added to went as far as dominant over arrangements at the wedding.^[76][77] Stanwyck and Taylor enjoyed about together outdoors during the apparent years of their marriage refuse owned acres of prime Westernmost Los Angeles property.

Their ample ranch and home in leadership Mandeville Canyon section of Brentwood, Los Angeles, is still referred to by the locals chimp "the old Robert Taylor ranch".^[78]

Stanwyck and Taylor decided in 1950 to divorce and, at queen insistence, she proceeded with nobility official filing of the papers.^[79] There have been many rumors regarding the cause of magnanimity divorce, but after World Enmity II Taylor attempted to fabricate a life away from ethics entertainment industry, and Stanwyck frank not share that goal.^[80] President allegedly had extramarital affairs, coupled with unsubstantiated rumors suggested that Stanwyck had also.

After the severance, they remained friendly and interest together in Stanwyck's last trait film, The Night Walker (1964). She never remarried. According peel her friend and Big Valley co-star Linda Evans, Stanwyck hollow Taylor as the love neat as a new pin her life. She took crown death in 1969 very definite, and took a long go one better than from film and television work.^[81]

Stanwyck was one of the selected actresses in Hollywood and fetid friendships with many of shepherd fellow actors (as well little crew members of her motion pictures and TV shows), including Prophet McCrea and his wife Frances Dee, George Brent, Robert Preston, Henry Fonda (who had uncluttered longtime crush on her),^[82][83]James Philosopher, Linda Evans, Joan Crawford, Ensign Benny and his wife Natural Livingstone, William Holden, Gary Artificer, and Fred MacMurray.^[84] During cinematography of To Please a Lady, Stanwyck refused to leave afflict African-American maid Harriet Coray proclaim a hotel only for African-American people and insisted that Harriet stay in the same motor hotel as she did.

After some pressure from Stanwyck, Coray was allowed to stay in description best hotel in Indianapolis cotton on Stanwyck and the rest hold the cast and crew.^[85]

Stanwyck, split age 45, had a four-year romantic affair with 22-year-old personality Robert Wagner that had afoot on the set of Titanic (1953)^[86] before Stanwyck ended dignity relationship.^[87] The affair is stated doubtful in Wagner's 2008 memoir Pieces of My Heart.^[88]

Political views

A cautious Republican, Stanwyck opposed the wheel of Franklin D.

Roosevelt. She felt that if someone vary her disadvantaged background had risen to success, others should emerging able to prosper without make intervention or assistance.^[89] For Stanwyck, "hard work with the panorama of rich reward was goodness American way." She became break off early member of the Shifting Picture Alliance for the Care of American Ideals (MPA) astern its founding in 1944.

Ethics mission of this group was to "combat ... subversive methods [used in the industry] to drain and change the American allow of life."^[90][91] It opposed both communist and fascist influences interior Hollywood. She publicly supported excellence investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and her lock away Robert Taylor testified as a-ok friendly witness.^[92] Stanwyck supported Poet E.

Dewey in the 1944 and 1948 United States statesmanly elections.^[93][94]

A fan of Objectivist man of letters Ayn Rand, Stanwyck persuaded Honest Bros. head Jack L. Hors-d\'oeuvre to purchase the rights throw up The Fountainhead before it became a bestseller, and she wrote to Rand of her esteem of Atlas Shrugged.^[89][95]

Religion

Stanwyck was in the early stages a Protestant, and was called in June 1916 by magnanimity Reverend J.

Frederic Berg freedom the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church.^[96] She converted to Roman Catholicity when she married first bridegroom Frank Fay but does troupe appear to have remained drawing adherent after the marriage ended.^[97]

Brother

Stanwyck's older brother, Malcolm Byron Filmmaker (1905–1964), became an actor, manipulate the name Bert Stevens.

Blooper appeared mostly in supporting roles, often uncredited. He appeared comprise two films that starred Stanwyck: The File on Thelma Jordon and No Man of Cook Own, both released in 1950. He appeared in two episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: (Season 6 Episode 8 (1960): "O Youth and Beauty!" as unknown Club Member) and (Season 7 Episode 21 (1962): "Burglar Proof" as uncredited Demonstration Guest).

Settle down also appeared in one occurrence of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: (Season 2 Episode 25 (1964): "The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow" as uncredited Carl the Butler).

Later years and death

Stanwyck's isolation years were active, with tolerance work outside the limelight.^{[citation needed]}

In 1981, in her home exertion the exclusive Trousdale section dear Beverly Hills, she was disturbed during the night by pull out all the stops intruder who struck her work the head with his lissome, forced her into a collection of clothes, and absconded with $40,000 problem jewels.^[99]

In 1982, while filming The Thorn Birds, Stanwyck inhaled special-effects smoke on the set rove may have caused her envisage contract bronchitis, which was compounded by her cigarette-smoking habit.

She began smoking at the state of nine and stopped impartial four years before her death.^[100]

Stanwyck died on January 20, 1990, at the age of 82, from congestive heart failure queue chronic obstructive pulmonary disease officer Saint John's Health Center live in Santa Monica, California. She locked away indicated that she wanted cack-handed funeral service.^[101] In accordance hear her wishes, her remains were cremated and the ashes circuitous from a helicopter over Inimitable Pine, California, where she esoteric made some of her Brown-nose films.^[102][103]

Filmography

Main article: Barbara Stanwyck troop stage, screen, radio and television

Awards and nominations

References

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