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Barbara Stanwyck is one of the most lasting actresses of Hollywood movies. She is nominated for the Academy Award many times throughout her career. Many of the movies she stars in receive awards. She is best known for her role as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkley's on the TV western, The Big Valley. Barbara Stanwyck is well known for her strong woman roles in such movies as The Lady Eve and Ball of Fire. Perhaps her biggest year is 1941 for which she stars in three major and successful movies.
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Barbara Stanwyck made her debut on the silver screen with the 1927 silent film, Broadway Nights in which she landed the minor role of a fan dancer. However, she went on to hit big time in Hollywood and starred in almost hundred films. Four times she was nominated by the Academy Awards in the category of the Best Actress for her performance in films like Stella Dallas, Ball of Fire, Double Indemnity and Sorry, Wrong Number. In 1954 she appeared in the western, Cattle Queen of Montana with co-actor Ronald Reagan.
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With a legendary film career that spanned five decades, Barbara Stanwyck made nearly 90 movies for the Silver Screen and was a four-time Academy Award nominee. Stanwyck took the coveted statue home in 1982, when she was given an honorary Oscar. She ... won three Emmy Awards, as she parlayed her considerable talents into a successful television career in the 1950s and 60s. Most notably, she played the powerful matriarch on the TV WesternThe Big Valley from 1965-69.
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Barbara Stanwyck is reunited with William Holden (her life-long friend, and co-star in 1939’s “Golden Boy”) in this landmark, all-star film which gave a new definition to the term “Boardroom Drama”. Only M-G-M could have established such an impressive cast for this box-office smash, which was adapted from Cameron Hawley’s best-selling novel by Ernest Lehman, in the first of his several magnificent collaborations with legendary director Robert Wise. In an era where Hollywood was moving into the world of lavish spectaculars on wide screens, in color, and using stereophonic sound, Wise took a completely different direction from the environment of the era, by making his film in B&W, without widescreen processes, stereophonic sound, or even a note of underscoring. It’s a taut, captivating story that gave Stanwyck her best screen role in several years, and provided equally impressive roles for Holden, Frederic March, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson, Shelley Winters, Paul Douglas, Louis Calhern, and Nina Foch (who earned an Oscar nomination for her work). Executive Suite was invited to the prestigious Venice Film Festival, where it earned a special Jury Prize. It remains a compelling and powerful drama about big business that has rarely been equalled.
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Though Barbara Stanwyck became well known to younger generations through her starring roles on several long-running television shows, especially “The Big Valley,” she was a major film actress from the early 1930s into the 1960s, starring in over 80 movies. Born Ruby Stevens on July 16, 1907, in Brooklyn, New York, Stanwyck’s first job was wrapping packages at a local department store. Her youthful dreams of a career in show business were realized in 1922, when she was hired as a chorus girl for $35 a week. In 1944 her earnings of $400,000 made her the highest-paid woman in the U.S.
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Born Ruby Stevens, in Brooklyn, New York, Stanwyck made her first film appearance in 1927 after early experience in vaudeville and on the Broadway stage. Stanwyck rapidly assumed star status and continued to be active in the movies until 1965. She was well suited to the roles of independently minded women... devious. She excelled as the confidence trickster of The Lady Eve and as the temptress of Double Indemnity. In later years she appeared frequently on television, notably as the matriarchal star of “The Big Valley” (1965-1969). She never reached the top rung of stardom, but in 1944 was said to be the highest paid woman in the United States.
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