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Barbara Stanwyck: Executive Suite
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Barbara Stanwyck is truly one of the finest actresses to ever grace the silver screen. When asked which five American-born actresses are the true best, many historians answer Lillian Gish, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, and Stanwyck. Out of the five ladies, Stanwyck is the most approachable, the most versatile, and the one who truly reached her audiences by emoting. Any Stanwyck or film fan will appreciate this set, wonderfully composed and consisting of some of Stanwyck's greatest co-stars. Of these Executive Suite is most dramatic and star-studded, Annie Oakley the most riveting. Though the films aren't necessarily her best remembered or most favored, Stanwyck shines in each picture.
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Outside of the all-star Executive Suite, Stanwyck did not appear in another major hit; she let her hair go gray, further reducing her chances of winning plum parts, and found herself cast in a series of low-budget Westerns. Only Samuel Fuller's 1957 picture Forty Guns, a film much revered by the Cahiers du Cinema staff, was of any particular notice.
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Executive Suite is the most prestigious film in the collection but Stanwyck is only one of six stars doing ensemble duty. Directed by Robert Wise and written by Ernest Lehman, the film shows the tough tactics that go into a change of command in a modern American corporation, when its president dies suddenly and leaves five Vice-Presidents with an equal claim to the job.
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