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Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Catherine Stevens in New York City to Catherine Ann McPhee, a Canadian immigrant from Nova Scotia, and Byron E. Stevens, an American.[1] She was raised in Brooklyn, New York. When she was two, her mother, who was pregnant at the time, died after being pushed off a moving trolley by a drunk. By age four, her father had abandoned the family. She was raised in foster homes and by an elder sister, but began working at age 13, and was a fashion model and Ziegfeld Girl by the age of 15.
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Barbara Stanwyck aka Ruby Stevens was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907 to Byron Stevens and Catherine McGee Stevens. Her pregnant mother died when a drunk pushed her off a moving trolley, not long before her father abandoned the family. Ruby was now an orphan at age four, she was raised in foster homes and by her older showgirl sister.
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Most of America's audiences see Barbara Stanwyck as the matriarch of the family known as the Barkley's on TV western "The Big Valley" (1965), where she played Victoria. Later she starred on the hit drama "The Colbys" (1985). But for millions of other fans, she had a movie career that spanned from 1927 until 1964 and then was on television until 1986. It was a film career that lasted for 59 years. She was born, Ruby Stevens, on July 16, 1907, in Brooklyn, New York. She went to work at the local telephone company for $14 dollars a week, but she had the urge to somehow enter show business.
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In Fuller’s cult western, Stanwyck again plays an authoritarian ranch boss, Jessica Drummond, who rules Arizona with her posse of hired gunmen. When a new marshall (Sullivan) arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling, brutally, for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Fuller once said that “Forty Guns is a film about weapons…the story of a man for whom a weapon becomes a terrible thing. For ten years, he had not touched a gun, because he was honest with himself. When he takes his weapon, he must use it. He was conditioned to get involved.”
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Based on a novel by Clare Jaynes, this powerful drama stars Barbara Stanwyck as a wealthy suburban housewife struggling to raise her two sons following the death of her soldier husband. After a chance meeting with Army officer George Brent, she begins to feel love again while her society friends disapprove of her new relationship. Warner Anderson, Lucile Watson, Eve Arden co-star. 94 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), French; bonus shorts "Daffy Doodles" (1946), "Jan Savitt and His Band" (1946); radio plays; theatrical trailer.
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Stanwyck is in a supporting role in this sexy ‘60s melodrama but oh what a role! She plays the madam of a ‘30s bordello in New Orleans and presides over a group of women including Jane Fonda. Things get a little rocky when a lovelorn man (Harvey) shows up trying to reunite with his long lost girl, Hallie (Capucine). The credit sequence, by the way, with Saul Bass’s strutting cat and Elmer Bernstein’s strutting jazz is sensational.
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