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GOOD BUT NOT GREAT BIOGRAPHY.......2005-07-06
Clearly the author, Al Diorio is a Stanwyck fan. Citing no primary sources in his material, Diorio really doesn't tell us much about Stanwyck that we didn't already know. Stanwyck will always remain an enigma in the annals of Hollywood history because that was the type of person she was. Diorio paints a very flattering picture of Stanwyck and only adequately assesses her film work. The definitive Stanwyck biography is yet to be written. The closest thing to perfection in Stanwyck books is Ella Smith's fine career analysis "Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck". Diorio's intentions are good and there is some merit in this biography. It's just a lukewarm attempt, something Stanwyck never was.
A FLAWED, BUT FAIR MINDED, BIOGRAPHY.......1999-09-04
DiOrio's intentions are good, and he does the best he can considering that he received no cooperation from Stanwyck's friends and closest colleagues. Thus the author is forced to rely primarily on the countless articles written about the actress over the years. The problem is, these articles were usually written carelessly, with the "facts" often in conflict ---- or even made up out of whole cloth. In short, this is a fair-minded cut-and-paste biography.
Nevertheless, I found some of the magazine exerpts interesting, and DiOrio has collected some especially fine quotes (such as director Douglas Sirk's). HOWEVER, I MUST CALL ATTENTION TO A MAJOR ERROR: In describing Stanwyck's slashed artery incident (during her marriage to Bob Taylor) DiOrio states that the accident occurred in October 1941 and infers that it may not have been an accident, but instead a desperate act resulting from her despair over Taylor's affair with "Johnny Eager" co-star Lana Turner. This rumor was first written about by Jane Ellen Wayne in her worshipful biography of Robert Taylor (in which Wayne trashes Stanwyck). How DiOrio came up with the October 1941 date is a mystery, because it is incorrect --- and yet it has now been repeated in two subsequent books about Stanwyck: Jane Ellen Wayne's follow-up to the Taylor book (yes she went to the poisoned well again!), and the even more absurd and error laden book by Axel Madsen.
FOR THE RECORD: Stanwyck's accident occurred in February 1940, long before Taylor worked with Turner. Shortly afterward, in a letter dated February 27, 1940, Stanwyck wrote to a friend explaining that she was injured while trying to open a stuck window: "I carelessly hit it with the heel of my hand. The glass broke and my wrist was badly cut."
Clearly DiOrio's errors are not deliberate or malicious, and the book does have some merit --- but it cannot be considered definitive.
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ABSOLUTELY THE FINEST BOOK ABOUT STANWYCK.......2005-10-09
The photographs alone in this fine volume are worth a mint!! I've worn out the spine on my copy which I grabbed in 1989 shortly before Stanwyck's death. This is the finest career analysis movie book that was ever written. The definitive Stanwyck biography ...that is...about her private life is yet to be written and probably never will be. Stanwyck was an enigma and remained so until the end. But this book, by Ella Smith, covers everything about her career that you would want to know...from her start in the theatre to the movies to the television work. It was a labor of love and I have never found another movie book comparable to it. A must for all Stanwyck fans!!
An excellent overview of her career.......2005-07-02
This is a lovely book with over three hundred black and white photo reproductions spanning Stanwyck's career. There is detailed information about almost every film and television show in which Stanwyck appeared, and about her career and work. The information consists of story outlines concentrating on Stanwyck's parts, and some background tales concerning actors, directors, producers and crew, but only as they figured in the making of the films, and admired Stanwyck.
Apart from her very early career, I found here no information about her private life at all, other than that she was a consummate professional who inspired great admiration in everyone with whom she worked.
Faced with such a bounty of information about Barbara Stanwyck's career, it seems greedy to want to know more. What genius drove Miss Stanwyck to her great performances is not explored here, nor is any aspect of her personal life, at all, other than in the very early years of her theatre career as it affected her early film performances.
Get this book for the photos, if that is what you want, or the play-by-play recitations of the films and television shows she appeared in, but do not expect to know more about this beautiful sphinx by reading "Starring Miss Barbara Stanwyck."
Extraordinary book - PLEASE SOMEBODY BRING IT BACK.......2000-04-29
This is the most outstanding career retrospective ever published on a movie star, a flagrant labor of love done with intregity and intelligence. The end result is an example of quality ever film star biographer ought to follow. Each of Stanwyck's 80+ films are profiled in depth with exclusive commentary from scores of her coworkers - leading men, directors, screenwriters, etc. This landmark book was extremely important in reestablishing Stanwyck's reputation as one of the truly great women of the cinema. I fell in love with this book twenty years ago as a teenager in a local library - I had grown up watching reruns of Barbara in THE BIG VALLEY and had no idea of her incredible film career. I was thrilled when the author published a revised edition in the late 80's enabling me to actually own a copy of this gem and now with Miss Stanwyck's death (10 years ago - how time flies! It seems like yesterday) it is truly time for a second revised edition. If you own one book on one movie star LET THIS BE IT.
THE BEST CAREER BOOK EVER WRITTEN.......1999-08-07
Ella Smith's coffee-table book on the career of Barbara Stanwyck is, bar none, the finest of its kind that this writer has ever read. Instead of being content to merely list Stanwyck's films and reprint old reviews (in the tradition of most "Films of" books), Ella Smith has gone the extra mile, and then some. This is because the idea originated with Smith (as opposed to a writer being "assigned" the project by a publisher), and it's entirely her baby. Smith designed the layout, selected the photographs and determined which of them would get the full page treatment (and her choices are absolutely breathtaking!)
In addition to including original reviews of Stanwyck's stage, film, and television work (as well as highlights from Stanwyck's interviews from that period) Smith personally viewed all of Stanwyck's work, and her observations are marvelously perceptive (drawing as they do on her own experience as actress, director and teacher). I was particularly pleased that she notes the powerful impact of Stanwyck's SILENT moments (whereas too many critics remember only the explosive ones). But most of all, I value the interviews Smith conducted with Stanwyck's co-stars and directors. These anecdotes are, in turn, touching and funny --- and reveal aspects of Stanwyck's personality that add greatly to the readers' regard for the woman, as well as the actress.
Of all the books written about Barbara Stanwyck, THIS is the only one worthy of her.
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Barbara Stanwyck thrilled millions in scene after scene, picture after picture, over a six-decade career that took her from an impoverished childhood in the streets of Brooklyn to the pinnacle of Golden Age Hollywood. At one tough and vulnerable, straight-talking but emotionally elusive, she electrified every production in which she appeared, from Hollywood B-Flicks to such classics as Stella Dallas, Double Indemnity, and television’s The Thorn Birds. She was an early role model for women dissatisfied with the standard Hollywood heroine, and a tantalizing challenge to men who wanted more. Her honesty and authenticity resonate even more powerfully today—but her complete story has never been told.
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She deserves better..........2006-12-16
Flat, passionless, lazy, pointless...I don't think there are enough words in the English language to communicate that this is a completely crap biography. Why did Axel Madsen even bother? He doesn't seem to have any enthusiasm for his subject. He gets so lazy in points that he gets concrete facts wrong. (Barbara DID share a scene with Ava Gardner in "East Side, West Side" - did he not even bother to watch Miss Stanwyck's movies?) It's like he wanted the money, researched which actress hadn't had a biography written on her in awhile and decided he would pound out some boring pages on this one. Just look at the title - "Stanwyck" - it just screams passion project!
Barbara Stanwyck was a fascinating mixture of brains, beauty, talent, humility and guts. She had a hell of a rough life but never outwardly felt sorry for herself. She gave intelligent, honest and layered performances in every movie she worked on, no matter the quality of the overall picture. Many of the great directors and leading men of her time site Barbara Stanwyck as the greatest actress they ever worked with. They don't say it in trite statements, they gush about her for paragraphs. She deserves something far better than this rubbish. Hopefully a more thoughtful biographer will come along some day and do her the justice she deserves. But Axel Madsen seems to think the world of himself and not much of anything for poor Missy. Well, in the words of Miss Stanwyck herself: "Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity." Go ahead and ignore this one.
A Decent Crack at an Elusive and Complicated Subject.......2005-12-25
Biography can be a tricky thing. It's inherently gossipy, inherently exploitative. A biographer opens herself up to accusations of slander when she writes without cooperation from her subject, to accusations of pandering when she writes with it. Perhaps more importantly, a human life--any human life--is too nuanced and fickle a thing to be completely reduced to words. This is especially true when the biographer aims not just to plot a step-by-step map of the subject's life, but to expose his or her inner demons, as Axel Madsen endeavors to do in his biography of Barbara Stanwyck.
Ultimately Stanwyck proves too elusive and complicated a subject to present a clear picture, but that's no reflection on Madsen. Instead, it's a reflection on Stanwyck. There may never have been a movie star more protective of her privacy or more prickly when it came to talking about her feelings and foibles. Stanwyck would have despised Madsen's biography, not necessarily because what it says isn't true, but because she hated being talked about, hated being stared at and prodded like a laboratory specimen. Some of this probably goes back to her childhood, which was by all accounts one of the most miserable a future Hollywood star ever had.
Stanwyck's reticence may account for some of the seeming structural problems with Madsen's book. For one thing, the book is frustratingly short on direct quotes and named human sources. This might be due to laxness on Madsen's part--or it might signal that he received no cooperation from Stanwyck's friends--but it seems equally likely that many of his sources simply refused to be quoted or named, perhaps not wanting to be thought to have betrayed Stanwyck. In any case, the lack of quotes adds more uncertainty to an already uncertain subject: we are never sure whether Madsen is reporting what he was told or his own conclusions drawn from what he was told.
Some would accuse Madsen of outright fabrication--especially in his page-and-a-half treatment of Stanwyck's possible bisexuality, which has somehow dominated all discussion of his 400+ page book. Indeed, for whatever reason, there's never been a star whose putative heterosexuality has been more hotly championed than Stanwyck's. Not Cary Grant, not Errol Flynn, not even Kate Hepburn--Kate Hepburn, for pity's sake!!!--has been "defended" so vigorously against similar charges. You'd think Madsen had questioned Mom and Apple Pie, or accused John Wayne of wearing girl's panties under his chaps.
In fact, however, Madsen neither fabricated the rumors about Stanwyck's bisexuality nor lifted them from tabloids. Stanwyck's own press agent has been quoted as saying that she had "no doubt" that Stanwyck was "intimate" with Joan Crawford on "more than one occasion." (Lawrence J. Quirk, Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography). Tallulah Bankhead reportedly claimed to have had an affair with Stanwyck. (David Bret, Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life). So, incidentally, have men, including Robert Wagner, who is more than 20 years Stanwyck's junior.
Of course, any or all of these claims might be false, but that doesn't mean a biographer has to ignore them. Unproven statements are all the evidence there is ever likely to be about a person's sexuality. Moreover, sexuality is no less a part of a person's life simply it might make other people--or even the subject himself--uncomfortable. Bisexuality is not a disease, but even if it were, a biographer would still be entitled to explore evidence of it after her subject's death. If a life story is to have any value at all, it must be allowed to track the full range of life experiences. Anything else isn't life, but someone's sham idea of what life "should" be.
That said, Madsen struggles and ultimately fails to describe Stanwyck's life below the surface: what drove her, how she thought, what feelings she had about whom. Madsen suggests that Stanwyck said virtually nothing publicly that wasn't scripted, nothing privately that might have left her vulnerable. He implies, moreover, that she couldn't have begun to open up if she'd wanted to, that she simply didn't know how. That seems believable enough: Stanwyck had virtually no formal education, virtually no stable family relationships, especially in early childhood. The hurts from her early life may have simply been too deep; maybe the reason we can't know Stanwyck from her biographies is that no ever quite knew her, because she couldn't let them.
If this is true, it isn't fair to besmirch Madsen's book because of it. His book has flaws, but he's given us the best psychological study of Stanwyck to date, and very likely the best we'll ever get.
Pure Junk .......2005-10-27
What can you say about a "biography" that uses articles from the National Enquirer for some of his information? This book is badly written with tons of speculation but little solid information. The author clearly wants Stanwyck to come across as a fool. There's scarcely a word about how beloved the actress was on her film sets and at the studios but plenty of conjecture about her private life. Madsen is outrageously inconsisent. On one page he tries to paint Stanwyck as a closeted lesbian, on the next she is absolutely obsessed with her ex-husband Robert Taylor (how many lesbians do you know who won't let go of an ex-husband?) Similarly, he pushes an image of Stanwyck as a Bible thumping right-wing fanatic which again hardly seems to fit with his image of Stanwyck as a hardcore dyke. Lesbians will no doubt be as offended as everyone else for the negative spin he puts forth. I suspect Madsen is smart enough to know the gay rumors about both Stanwyck and Taylor are bogus but they are a strong starting point if one wants to write an salacious book. He barely acknowledges Stanwyck's talent and seems to not admire anything about her.
Stanwyck Still a Great Woman.......2004-02-07
No matter what Axel Madsen writes about Barbara Stanwyck, I find her to be someone I would love to have met and known. He tries to make her "toughness" sound like something negative; but, as a matter of fact, I admire that quality about Stanwyck. She was tough, she was strong, she was independent, she was sharp, and she was a brilliant actress. Her vulnerability, still visible beneath that tough facade, always goes straight to my heart, somehow. She couldn't help the facts of her early life, her being an orphan, poor, abandoned by her father...the woman's drive to succeed was phenomenal and she should be remembered for that, for her refusal to wallow in self-pity, and for her professionalism, both on and off the screen. I've always loved her and I always will. She was a private person; her personal life was her personal life, entirely her own business. Her refusal to "let it all hang out" should be copied by today's "actresses," as I loosely call them. The book is laced with mistakes about the facts of her life. But, as these books go, I'll have to admit it isn't as lurid or as vicious as some of them are. Madsen seems to own up to a grudging respect for Stanwyck; that's a step in the right direction.
Neither a very good nor a very bad book.......2002-03-04
People are reacting pretty strongly in their reviews of this book, I suspect primarily because of the claims that Madsen makes about Stanwyck's sexuality. But the fact is that while this isn't a terribly good book, it is also not a truly horrible one, either. If one wants a basic, serviceable biography of Stanwyck, which lays out the main facts and events in her life, this one will do.
The virtue of the book is that is it fairly thorough and comprehensive. One gets a feel for her life, for the way she viewed both herself and the world, and for some of the dynamics in her relationships. A portrait emerges of a woman who was both very admirable and quite disappointing. One admires her drive and enormous professionalism as an actress, and is impressed by how giving and helpful she was to her fellow professionals. Away from her vocation as an actress, however, Stanwyck emerges as someone less than admirable. Other accounts of her life have emphasized her difficulty with intimate relationships, her failure as a mother (not quite "Mommie Dearest" but definitely not a role model), and her lamentable political commitments. Although not the political activist that her husband Robert Taylor or his friends John Wayne and Ronald Reagan were, she nonetheless was pretty much part and parcel of the Hollywood Anticommunist movement that ruined so many people's lives in the 1940s and 1950s.
On the negative side, Madsen's prose is drab at best. Madsen seems to be the essence of the "professional" writer, who lives by writing a certain number of pages in a certain amount of time. There is a workmanlike dullness to his pages, and multiple signs of minimal rewriting, such as almost verbatim repetition of passages and restatement of quotes. Constant repetition is a prime mark of sloppy writing and inattention in the final editing.
But I suspect that most people will hate or love this book based on its portrayal of sexuality. I am an utterly nonhomophobic, and really couldn't care less what someone's sexuality is. Some of my greatest personal heroes were gay, such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Proust, and Cole Porter, and some of my favorite Hollywood actors and directors were gay or bi. I have three general statements to make about this issue in regard to this book.
First, I speculate that Mr. Madsen is himself gay and sees it as his job as a gay writer to "out" a famous individual who was gay but is not popularly perceived as being gay. I assume he is gay partly because of his constant reference to individuals as being gay when the issue of their sexuality is utterly irrelevant. Thus, he might mention that Barbara knew a certain individual, a "gay" producer. Not a "producer," but a "gay producer," though his being homo, bi, pan, or asexual is without the tiniest bit of relevance. But part of the assumption of the outing movement is that if all of us--straight and gay--realize how many people are gay, our attitudes towards homosexuality will change. I can't argue this point at length, but I find "outing" to be reprehensible, especially when evidence is minimal. I also assume that he is gay because bi sexuality has featured as a dominant issue in some of his other books. It is unquestionably an issue that preoccupies him.
Second, though Madsen alludes to Stanwyck's bisexuality, he doesn't really adduce any actual evidence of this. Much of his "evidence" seems to be based on the perception by many lesbians that she was "one of us." There are also multiple references to a possible lesbian relationship with her publicist, but when looks closely, this appears to be more speculation than fact. Although it has long been held that Robert Taylor, Barbara's husband, was at least bi and perhaps gay, the evidence for Barbara seems to be pretty weak, at least as presented by Madsen. And glancing through the pages of Madsen's THE SEWING CIRCLE, which discusses love relationships among women in the thirties and forties, I didn't find anything much more convincing that was contained in these pages.
Third, to those who are so terribly offended by suggestions that Barbara Stanwyck might have been a lesbian or bisexual, I have to say: haven't we gotten past stuff like this yet? To be blunt, who cares if someone is gay or bi? Is THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD less enjoyable because Errol Flynn was unquestionably bisexual? Although Madsen's evidence isn't very convincing or substantial, if it were, it wouldn't really matter all that much.
In the end, Madsen's biography is disappointing as much because it is flatly written than because he successfully or unsuccessfully uncovers Stanwyck's sexual secrets. But the book also fails because he is never able to help us get a sense of the immense excitement that Barbara Stanwyck generated in dozens of films in a long film career. Dislike this book if you must, but please dislike it for the correct reasons.
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The Films of Barbara Stanwyck
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Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames
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No delicate ingénues, these. In the middle of the twentieth century, the Mary Pickfords of the movie world were replaced by a different sort of woman—drop-dead gorgeous, witty, not afraid to speak their minds, they could slay you with a look—and if that didn't work, look out for the pistol in the garter. These ground-breaking actresses helped change the course of movie history, charting a path for generations to come.
These profiles of fifteen leading ladies—Lucille Ball, Lynn Bari, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Gloria Grahame, Jean Hagen, Adele Jergens, Ida Lupino, Marilyn Maxwell, Mercedes McCambridge, Jane Russell, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Stanwyck, Claire Trevor and Marie Windsor—include overviews of their lives and careers, and excerpts from interviews. Five photos supplement each profile. Jane Russell (one of the actresses profiled) provides a foreword.
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Costly Tomatoes.......2007-03-08
This is an excellent book on the tough women character actors of the 1940s through 1970s. It's an interesting book to read and the illustrations are good, but I don't see paying $35 for a paperback book like this. I would not do that again, although I understand that small publishing companies have to make a profit.
Good choice for black-and-white movie buffs.......2006-05-02
A quick and enjoyable read, this book provides brief essays on 15 actresses who enjoyed varying degrees of success and fame in Hollywood. The authors' affection for their subjects comes through clearly, and readers will be tempted to seek out the movies described.
Excellent .......2006-03-04
In the style of James Robert Parish, this volume provides interesting essays on 15 stars. A few, like Barbara Stanwyck, have been subjects of other volumes but others like Ann Dvorak and Marie Windsor are much rarer subjects.
Each essay combines details of each star's career with their personal life in reasonable detail for the level at which the volume is pitched. The personality of every lady is evident. There are some great photos too. Some of the ladies were still alive when the volume was published so the book benefits from direct quotes whenever possible. The gem is the transcript of a lengthy interview with Ann Sheridan.
Of its type, this book is as good as any others.
Just not worth it.......2006-01-10
There seems to be a lot of differing opinions here but I have to agree with the all the reviewers below who said it was boring and not worth the price. It is a flimsy paperback with poor quality photos. I know McFarland is a tiny publishing house but when you spend almost $40 you expect a little more.
Read the Book!.......2006-01-04
I've had just about enough of Amazon becoming a forum for grievances --- and "Dan Dan"'s so-called review did it! The bad reviews of "Killer Tomatoes" here on Amazon are based solely on Laura Wagner's negative reviews in "Classic Images." Never mind that she's good at reviewing books and she's always fair - friends of the authors she pans are taking revenge by writing lies about her book.
Dan Dan's only other review on Amazon is E. J. Fleming's "The Fixers," which Miss Wagner gave a deserved bad review to in CI. Hey, Dan Dan, how's your friend E.J.? You can tell him that you wrote that review and everyone is marveling at it.
First off, Dan Dan NEVER read the book. "Its bad enough when 'writers' rewrite stories with nothing new to add. There is absolutely nothing new in any of these stories." If you read the book, Dan Dan, you would see that the writers interviewed not only some of their subjects, but also people close to them. Are you telling me that Jean Hagen's tragic story has been told before? Ann Dvorak's? That first-hand interviews are "nothing new"?
"Its worse when important parts of the stories are left out." What, the sex lives of the women? Gay RUMORS?
Jane Russell's foreword was nice, not rambling. Ray Hagen, within the book, interviewed her at length - and there was nothing wrong with her memory. If you have to pick on a foreword, for crying out loud, you are really stretching it.
Another so-called reviewer here complained about the title, like that's basis for panning a book (stretching, stretching, stretching). Does that person see the title's cleverness? It's a play on words. Get the joke! This same reviewer, before Miss Wagner panned E. J. Fleming's books, loved and raved about "Killer Tomatoes" on her Yahoo Group and website. I saw it with my own eyes. Now, of course, she's singing another tune.
Still another complained that the subjects were B movie actress. This sounds like a dig to Miss Wagner, who said in a recent review (not maliciously) that Carole Landis (a book also by Fleming) was a B movie actress. Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Russell, Ida Lupino, Gloria Grahame, and Ann Sheridan were NOT B movie actresses, folks. Lucille Ball started in the Bs, but she's a superstar now. Mercedes McCambridge is an Oscar winning actress.
And how about this: "The gals are all portrayed as saints and victims and you are only given a glimpse into their private lives. I would have like to have learned a lot more about who they dated, who they hated, who was addicted to what!" Um, another "reviewer" who didn't read the book? The authors candidly talk about Jean Hagen's and Jane Russell's alcoholism and Marilyn Maxwell's affairs. I guess because this isn't a lowbrow gossip book, these reviewers - who champion books like "The Fixers" - have a problem with authors who are trying to tell a real story that isn't based solely on sex lives.
The photo crack is ridiculous. Like most McFarland books, the pictures are clear and look good. Grainy? Get better glasses.
So, I say, stop using Amazon to air your dirty laundry. These reviewers haven't read the book and can't honestly review it. The CI reviews are fair and Miss Wagner shouldn't have to be subjected to people who can't handle it when she points out their misinformation. She actually gives more good reviews than bad, it's just the bad ones that attract the nuts.
(By the way, I do not personally know Miss Wagner or Mr. Hagen, but I read "Classic Images" regularly. I also love this book.)
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Barbara Stanwyck/bio
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Fill up at the concession stand before taking a front row seat to watch your favorite classic movies on radio! Each of these 2-cassette collections features the complete and unedited radio adaptations of classic movies as originally broadcast on the Lux Radio Theatre. These dramatic double features include the original commercials and have been digitally restored and remastered for your listening ease. Also includes special introduction by WNBC-TV movie critic Jeffrey Lyons. Radio Movie Classics Starring Barbara Stanwyck in "SORRY, WRONG NUMBER" 01-09-50 AND "STELLA DALLAS" 10-11-37
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A Change of Pace.......2006-07-14
These two Radio Movie Classics are broadcasts of the Lux Radio Program, a popular radio show that brought famous actors to the radio to recreate roles from films. Cecil B. DeMille ran the show as the host, but the film stars were the ones that really shone.
Before the broadcasts, an announcer explains the show and goes over the life of Barbara Stanwyck briefly. Then the show begins.
First we have Stella Dallas, a film that really helped Stanwyck to remain a star in Hollywood. She transforms from a young woman to an old lady. First, she is an excited but poor girl who meets a rich man who is willing to transform her. When she does not take well to society manners, the two divorce and share their daughter. Over the years, the two become very close, but Stanwyck has to make many sacrifices for her daughter.
Sorry, Wrong Number is a film noir from later in Stanwyck's career. She plays a bedridden woman who hears through telephone coversations and such that a murder is going to take place. Bit by bit, she learns that the killer might just be after her!
Both programs are read with heart on the part of Stanwyck and are interesting to hear for major fans of her work.
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