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Barbara Stanwyck: Lady Eve
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Barbara Stanwyck entered into a romantic relationship with Rex Cherryman, her co-actor in The Noose but the affair was cut short by the actor’s untimely death due to septic poisoning. Stanwyck married Francis Fay in 1928 and the couple even adopted a son, named Dion Anthony Fay. However the marriage ended in a divorce in 1935, reportedly due to Fay’s professional insecurities and violent outbursts against his young wife. Some film historians feel that the marriage was the basis for the subject of A Star is Born.
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For 1937's Stella Dallas, Stanwyck scored the first of four Academy Award nominations. Refusing to be typecast, she then starred in a screwball comedy, Breakfast for Two, followed respectively by the downcast 1938 drama Always Goodbye and the caper comedy The Mad Miss Manton. After the 1939 De Mille Western Union Pacific, she co-starred with William Holden in Golden Boy, and with Henry Fonda she starred in Preston Sturges' outstanding The Lady Eve. For the 1941 Howard Hawks comedy Ball of Fire, Stanwyck earned her second Oscar nomination. Another superior film, Capra's Meet John Doe, completed a very successful year. Drama was the order of the day for the next few years, as she starred in pictures like The Gay Sisters and The Great Man's Lady.
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[I]n "To Please a Lady," Stanwyck is a crackerjack columnist whose criticism in an article of arrogant racer Clark Gable forces him into the stunt-driving circuit. But when she interviews him while he is on the comeback trail, sparks begin to fly. Adolphe Menjou, Will Geer co-star. Then, in the noirish "Jeopardy," Barbara Stanwyck shines as a loving wife whose Mexican vacation becomes a nightmare when her husband becomes trapped beneath a jetty. After jumping in her car to get help, she is kidnapped by a criminal on the run from the cops. Now, Stanwyck attempts to coerce the crook into helping her save her spouse before he drowns.
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In Capra’s first independently produced film, Stanwyck plays a “sob-sister” newspaper reporter fired for not producing enough “fireworks” to increase circulation. To save her column, she fabricates a letter from a “John Doe” who protests the dismal state of Depression-era America by committing suicide on Christmas Eve. Stanwyck soon finds her real John Doe in former baseball pitcher Long John Willoughby (Cooper). The film became one of the year’s top ten money-makers and won Capra long-coveted critical praise.
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Fay [Barbara Stanwyck's husband Frank Fay] went to church Sunday mornings, but insisted on having open house in the afternoon. Anybody and everybody dropped in, the women in fluttering beach pajamas, the men in white duck trousers and striped shirts. Frank drank too much.
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Stanwyck stars as the notorious Lily Powers, an unhappy waitress in her father’s grimy speakeasy. Tired of being expected to serve more than just drinks to the salivating patrons (and armed with a new Nietzschean philosophy), Lily makes her way to New York. There she sleeps her way to the top of a high-rise office building, laying waste to multitudes of men on every floor. This restoration reinstates five minutes of censored cuts there were recently discovered after 70 years.
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